Where does “multicivilizational” come from?
multicivilizational (English) comes from English civilizational, from English civilization, from French civilisation, from French -ation, from Middle French -ation, from Old French -ation, from Latin -ātiō, from Latin -tiō — limestone; chalk; the finish line.
multicivilizational (English): Of or pertaining to more than one civilization
Definitions
- Of or pertaining to more than one civilization
Ancestry of “multicivilizational”, step by step
multicivilizational traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English civilizational
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | civilizational | Pertaining to or arising from civilization |
| 2 | English | civilization | An organized culture encompassing many... |
| 3 | French | civilisation | civilization |
| 4 | French | -ation | Used to indicate action, condition, result or effect; -ation |
| 5 | Middle French | -ation | ation |
| 6 | Old French | -ation | ation |
| 7 | Latin | -ātiō | — |
| 8 | Latin | -tiō | tion, -ation, -ing |
| 9 | Latin | dissertātiō | (spoken) dissertation, discourse, disquisition |
| 10 | Latin | dissertus | arranged, disposed; explained |
| 11 | Latin | disserere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 12 | Latin | dis- | asunder, apart, in two; reversal, removal;... |
| 13 | Latin | calceus | shoe |
| 14 | Latin | calx | limestone; chalk; the finish line |
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 |