Where does “metacluster” come from?

metacluster (English) comes from English meta, from Latin mēta, from Proto-West Germanic mōtijan, from Proto-Germanic mōtijaną, from Proto-Germanic mōtą, from Proto-Indo-European meh₂d- — to be wet, to become wet; to meet, approach,...

metacluster (English): A cluster of metagenomic data

Definitions

  1. A cluster of metagenomic data

Ancestry of “metacluster”, step by step

metacluster traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English meta

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishmetaSelf-referential; structured analogously, but at...
2Latinmētacone, pyramid
3Proto-West Germanicmōtijanto meet
4Proto-Germanicmōtijanąto meet, encounter
5Proto-Germanicmōtąmeeting
6Proto-Indo-Europeanmeh₂d-to be wet, to become wet; to meet, approach,...

via English cluster

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishclusterA group or bunch of several discrete items that...
2Middle Englishcluster—
3Old Englishcluster—
4Proto-Germanicklus-—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European meh₂d- →