Where does “multicircuit” come from?
multicircuit (English) comes from English circuit, from Middle English circuit, from Old French circuit, from Latin circuitus, from Latin circumeō, from Latin eō, from Proto-Italic eō, from Proto-Italic ejō — to go.
multicircuit (English): Involving more than one circuit
Definitions
- Involving more than one circuit
Ancestry of “multicircuit”, step by step
multicircuit traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English circuit
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | circuit | The act of moving or revolving around, or as in a... |
| 2 | Middle English | circuit | — |
| 3 | Old French | circuit | — |
| 4 | Latin | circuitus | patrol; circuit; revolution |
| 5 | Latin | circumeō | to go, travel or march around; to circulate |
| 6 | Latin | eō | to go, to fare, to move (oneself) (any kind of animate or inanimate motion: walk, ride, sail, fly, etc.) |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | eō | I go |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | ejō | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁éyti | to go, to be going |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁ey- | to go |
via English multi
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | multi | A multituberculate; Neolamprologus multifasciatus |
| 2 | English | multituberculate | Having molars with multiple rows of cusps; Any of... |
| 3 | English | tuberculate | Having tubercles; Tubercular |
| 4 | Latin | tuberculatus | warty, tuberculate |
| 5 | Latin | tūberculum | a small swelling, bump, or protuberance; a boil, pimple, tubercle |
| 6 | Latin | tūber | a hump, bump, swelling, protuberance; excrescence |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | tūβos | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | tewh₂- | to swell; to crowd; to be strong |