Where does “millisecond” come from?
I need to analyze this etymology chain carefully. However, I notice the chain appears corrupted or malformed—it lists "Latin mille" repeatedly and seems to contain errors (the sequence doesn't form a coherent path, and "Latin mille" appears multiple times disconnected from proper progression).
Given the headword is "millisecond," the legitimate etymological path should be:
- English millisecond ← milli- (from Latin mille, "thousand") + second (from Latin secundus)
But the chain provided doesn't clearly support a coherent single etymology for "millisecond" as a whole word.
I cannot write an accurate one-sentence etymology following your rules because the chain data appears unreliable. To proceed responsibly, I would need:
1. Clarification on whether this chain is meant to trace "millisecond" as a compound, or just its components
2. Confirmation that the repeated "
millisecond (English): One one-thousandth of a second. Symbol: ms
Definitions
- One one-thousandth of a second. Symbol: ms
Ancestry of “millisecond”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | English | second | Number-two; following after the first one with... |
| 2 | Middle French | seconder | — |
| 3 | Latin | secundo | dative masculine singular of secundus; dative... |
| 4 | Latin | secundus | second, the ordinal number after prīmus and... |
| 5 | Latin | sequor | I follow, come or go after |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | sekʷōr | follow, come/go after |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | sékʷetor | to be following |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | sekʷ- | to follow; to see; to say |
Words derived from “millisecond”