Where does “nonemendation” come from?
nonemendation (English) comes from English emendation, from English emend, from Middle English emenden, from Latin ēmendō, from Latin ex, from Latin commūnicō, from Latin commūnis, from Old Latin com(m)oinis — resin.
nonemendation (English): Lack of emendation; failure to emend something
Definitions
- Lack of emendation; failure to emend something
Ancestry of “nonemendation”, step by step
nonemendation traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English emendation
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | emendation | The act of altering for the better, or correcting... |
| 2 | English | emend | To correct and revise |
| 3 | Middle English | emenden | — |
| 4 | Latin | ēmendō | to free from faults, correct, improve, remedy, amend, revise, cure |
| 5 | Latin | ex | A name of the letter "X"; out of, from |
| 6 | Latin | commūnicō | to impart, share |
| 7 | Latin | commūnis | common, commonplace, ordinary, general, universal, shared, shared alike, of both sides, belonging to two or more together |
| 8 | Old Latin | com(m)oinis | — |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | kommoinis | common |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱom-moy-ni- | held in common |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 13 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 14 | German | kitt | putty certain kinds of cement used for fixing e.g. window panes |
| 15 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 16 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 17 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |