Where does “metamodeling” come from?

metamodeling (English) comes from English modeling, from English model, from Middle French modelle, from Old Italian modello, from Vulgar Latin modellus, from Latin modulus, from Latin -ulus, from Proto-Italic -olos — Forms agent nouns from verbal roots.

metamodeling (English): The design, construction and use of metamodels

Definitions

  1. The design, construction and use of metamodels

Ancestry of “metamodeling”, step by step

metamodeling traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English modeling

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Englishmodelingpresent participle of model; The art of sculpting...
2EnglishmodelA person who serves as a subject for artwork or...
3Middle Frenchmodelletemplate; model; model; replica; reconstruction
4Old Italianmodello
5Vulgar Latinmodellus
6Latinmodulusa small measure or interval; a module; a water...
7Latin-ulusUsed to form a diminutive of a noun, indicating...
8Proto-Italic-olos
9Proto-Italic-elosForms desubstantival and deadjectival diminutive nouns
10Proto-Indo-European-e-lós
11Proto-Indo-European-lósForms agent nouns from verbal roots

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,...
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -lós