Where does “multifeatured” come from?
multifeatured (English) comes from English featured, from English feature, from Middle English feture, from Anglo-Norman feture, from Old French faiture, from Latin factura, from Latin factus, from Latin faciō.
multifeatured (English): Having many features
Definitions
- Having many features
Ancestry of “multifeatured”, step by step
multifeatured traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English featured
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | featured | displayed with special treatment; Having features... |
| 2 | English | feature | One's structure or make-up: form, shape, bodily... |
| 3 | Middle English | feture | One's form or bodily profile; the overall... |
| 4 | Anglo-Norman | feture | Alternative form of faiture |
| 5 | Old French | faiture | action; act; method; way; manner; form;... |
| 6 | Latin | factura | a making, manufacture; a thing that has been... |
| 7 | Latin | factus | done, made, having been done or made; became |
| 8 | Latin | faciō | to do |
| 9 | Latin | -torium | nominative neuter singular of -tōrius; accusative... |
| 10 | Latin | -tōrius | ory |
| 11 | Latin | -tor | -er |
| 12 | Proto-Italic | -tōr | Forms agent nouns to verb stems |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | -tōr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | -tor-s | — |
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 |