Where does “multidisabled” come from?
multidisabled (English) comes from English disabled, from English disable, from English able, from Middle English able, from Old French able, from Latin habilis, from Latin -ilis, from Proto-Italic -elis — Forms agent nouns from verbal roots.
multidisabled (English): Having more than one disability
Definitions
- Having more than one disability
Ancestry of “multidisabled”, step by step
multidisabled traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English disabled
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | disabled | Made incapable of use or action; Having a... |
| 2 | English | disable | To render unable; to take away an ability of, as... |
| 3 | English | able | Easy to use; Suitable; competent; Liable to |
| 4 | Middle English | able | capable, expert, qualified, skilful, competent |
| 5 | Old French | able | able; capable |
| 6 | Latin | habilis | able to have/possess/maintain; having sufficient... |
| 7 | Latin | -ilis | -ile |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | -elis | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -elis | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -lós | Forms agent nouns from verbal roots |
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 |