Where does “multiindustrial” come from?
multiindustrial (English) comes from English industrial, from French industriel, from French -iel, from French -el, from Old French -el, from Latin -ellus, from Latin -ulus, from Proto-Italic -olos — Forms agent nouns from verbal roots.
multiindustrial (English): Of or pertaining to more than one industry
Definitions
- Of or pertaining to more than one industry
Ancestry of “multiindustrial”, step by step
multiindustrial traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English industrial
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | industrial | Of or relating to industry, notably... |
| 2 | French | industriel | industrial; industrialist; industry |
| 3 | French | -iel | Suffix used to form adjectives. Compare with... |
| 4 | French | -el | To make an adjectival form of a noun; -al |
| 5 | Old French | -el | Suffix that usually denotes a masculine noun |
| 6 | Latin | -ellus | Alternative form of -ulus; "forming masculine... |
| 7 | Latin | -ulus | Used to form a diminutive of a noun, indicating... |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | -olos | — |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | -elos | Forms desubstantival and deadjectival diminutive nouns |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -e-lós | — |
| 11 | 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 |