Where does “multiradiate” come from?
multiradiate (English) comes from English radiate, from French radial, from German radial, from Italian radiale, from Spanish radial, from Spanish radio, from French radium, from French radioactif — deed, doing, action; labour, work, task;...
multiradiate (English): Having many rays
Definitions
- Having many rays
Ancestry of “multiradiate”, step by step
multiradiate traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English radiate
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | radiate | To extend, send or spread out from a center like... |
| 2 | French | radial | radial |
| 3 | German | radial | radial; radially |
| 4 | Italian | radiale | radial; radial, radial tire; radial, radius bone |
| 5 | Spanish | radial | radial; of or pertaining to radio; radian |
| 6 | Spanish | radio | radio; radius; radium |
| 7 | French | radium | radium |
| 8 | French | radioactif | radioactive |
| 9 | French | actif | active; asset; top |
| 10 | Old French | actif | active |
| 11 | Latin | āctīvus | active |
| 12 | Ancient Greek | ἐνεργητικός | Able to act on; acting on; Active; In the active... |
| 13 | Ancient Greek | ἐνεργέω | to be in action or activity, to operate; to... |
| 14 | Ancient Greek | ἐνεργός | at work, active |
| 15 | Ancient Greek | ἔργον | deed, doing, action; labour, work, task;... |
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 |