Where does “multiextent” come from?
multiextent (English) comes from English extent, from Middle English extente, from Old French estente, from Old French estendre, from Latin extendere, from Latin extendo, from Latin ex-, from Latin e.
multiextent (English): Consisting of more than one extent
Definitions
- Consisting of more than one extent
Ancestry of “multiextent”, step by step
multiextent traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English extent
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | extent | A range of values or locations; The space, area,... |
| 2 | Middle English | extente | — |
| 3 | Old French | estente | valuation of land, stretch of land |
| 4 | Old French | estendre | to stretch, extend or spread |
| 5 | Latin | extendere | third-person plural perfect active indicative of... |
| 6 | Latin | extendo | I stretch or thrust out; I extend, prolong or... |
| 7 | Latin | ex- | out, away; throughout; thoroughly |
| 8 | Latin | e | The name of the letter "E"; out of, from |
| 9 | Latin | ex | A name of the letter "X"; out of, from |
| 10 | Latin | commūnicō | to impart, share |
| 11 | Latin | commūnis | common, commonplace, ordinary, general, universal, shared, shared alike, of both sides, belonging to two or more together |
| 12 | Old Latin | com(m)oinis | — |
| 13 | Proto-Italic | kommoinis | common |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱom-moy-ni- | held in common |
| 15 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 16 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 17 | Middle English | kyt | — |
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 |