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

  1. A sheet of microfilm, six by four inches, holding...

Ancestry of “microfiche”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchmicrofichemicrofiche
2Frenchfichecard; plug; first-person singular present...
3Frenchficherto plug in; to drive something in by its point,...
4Old Frenchfichierto pierce
5Vulgar Latin*fīgicāre
6Latinfīgōto fasten, fix
7Proto-Italicfeigʷōto insert; to fasten

Words derived from “microfiche

Every word from Proto-Italic feigʷō