Where does “microfiche” come from?
Microfiche comes from French microfiche, a twentieth-century coinage combining the prefix micro- with fiche, a card or sheet for storing miniaturized information.
microfiche (English): A sheet of microfilm, six by four inches, holding...
Definitions
- A sheet of microfilm, six by four inches, holding...
Ancestry of “microfiche”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | French | microfiche | — |
| 2 | French | fiche | card; plug; first-person singular present... |
| 3 | French | ficher | to plug in; to drive something in by its point,... |
| 4 | Old French | fichier | to pierce |
| 5 | Vulgar Latin | *fīgicāre | — |
| 6 | Latin | fīgō | — |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | feigʷō | to insert; to fasten |
Words derived from “microfiche”