Where does “multiparticipant” come from?
multiparticipant (English) comes from English participant, from Middle French participant, from Latin participāns, from Latin participō, from Latin particeps, from Latin -ceps, from Old Latin -cipes, from Proto-Italic -kaputis — to seize, hold.
multiparticipant (English): Relating to, or involving, multiple participants
Definitions
- Relating to, or involving, multiple participants
Ancestry of “multiparticipant”, step by step
multiparticipant traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English participant
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | participant | One who participates; Sharing; participating;... |
| 2 | Middle French | participant | — |
| 3 | Latin | participāns | partaking |
| 4 | Latin | participō | to partake of, participate in |
| 5 | Latin | particeps | sharing |
| 6 | Latin | -ceps | -headed; -fold; -catcher |
| 7 | Old Latin | -cipes | "third declension"; Alternative form of -ceps;... |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | -kaputis | -headed |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | kaput | head |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | káput | head |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | kap- | to seize, hold |
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 |