Where does “neuroflexibility” come from?
neuroflexibility (English) comes from English flexibility, from French flexibilité, from Latin flexibilitās, from Latin flexibilis, from Latin -bilis, from Proto-Italic -ðlis, from Proto-Indo-European -dʰlis, from Proto-Indo-European -dʰlom — Alternative form of *-trom; instrumental suffix;...
neuroflexibility (English): neural flexibility (ability to modulate function of neurons)
Definitions
- neural flexibility (ability to modulate function of neurons)
Ancestry of “neuroflexibility”, step by step
neuroflexibility traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English flexibility
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | flexibility | The quality of being flexible; suppleness;... |
| 2 | French | flexibilité | flexibility; flexibleness |
| 3 | Latin | flexibilitās | flexibility |
| 4 | Latin | flexibilis | flexible, pliant, able to be bent; tractable,... |
| 5 | Latin | -bilis | -ble |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | -ðlis | Forms adjectives from verb stems indicating capacity or worth of being acted on |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -dʰlis | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -dʰlom | Alternative form of *-trom; instrumental suffix;... |
via English neuro
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | neuro | Neurologist; Neurology |