Where does “iteratee” come from?
iteratee (English) comes from English iterate, from Latin iteratus, from Latin iterō, from Latin iterum, from Proto-Indo-European i-tero-, from Proto-Indo-European éy, from Proto-Indo-European h₁e-.
iteratee (English): In functional programming, a composable abstraction for incrementally processing sequentially-presented chunks of data in a purely functional fashion
Definitions
- In functional programming, a composable abstraction for incrementally processing sequentially-presented chunks of data in a purely functional fashion
Ancestry of “iteratee”, step by step
iteratee traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English iterate
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | iterate | to perform or repeat an action on each item in a... |
| 2 | Latin | iteratus | repeated |
| 3 | Latin | iterō | to do a second time, repeat, renew |
| 4 | Latin | iterum | again, anew; a second time |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | i-tero- | other |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | éy | the; demonstrative pronoun; this one, he |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁e- | — |