Where does “nondisclosure” come from?
I need to work through this carefully, as the chain seems problematic.
Looking at the chain provided: English disclosure | Latin clausus | Latin claudere | Latin novem | Latin claudus | English nine | Proto-Indo-European kel- | Proto-Indo-European kel-
This chain has serious issues:
- "disclosure" doesn't etymologically connect to "novem" (nine)
- "claudere" (to close) doesn't connect to "novem" (nine)
- "nine" (English) doesn't derive from Latin "claudus"
- The chain appears to conflate two separate etymologies (one for "disclosure" from Latin claudere, and an unrelated one involving "nine")
Given these contradictions, I cannot write an accurate one-sentence etymology that follows this chain without inventing false connections or stating false information.
**I cannot complete this task as written.** The etymology chain provided
nondisclosure (English): An act or policy of not disclosing
Definitions
- An act or policy of not disclosing
Ancestry of “nondisclosure”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | English | non- | Used in the sense of no or none, to show lack of... |
| 2 | Latin | nōnus | — |
| 3 | Latin | novenos | accusative masculine plural of novēnus |
| 4 | Latin | novem | nine; 9; first-person singular present active... |
| 5 | Latin | novo | I make new, renew, refresh; I alter, change;... |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | nowāō | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | néweh₂ti | to renew |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | néwos | new |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | new- | new; to nod, assent to |