Where does “nontelescoping” come from?
nontelescoping (English) comes from English telescoping, from English telescope, from Latin telescopium, from Italian telescopio, from Ancient Greek τηλεσκόπος, from Ancient Greek τῆλε, from Latin commūnicāre, from Latin commūnis — resin.
nontelescoping (English): Not telescoping
Definitions
- Not telescoping
Ancestry of “nontelescoping”, step by step
nontelescoping traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English telescoping
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | telescoping | present participle of telescope; The act of... |
| 2 | English | telescope | A monocular optical instrument that magnifies... |
| 3 | Latin | telescopium | a telescope |
| 4 | Italian | telescopio | telescope |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | τηλεσκόπος | far-seeing |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | τῆλε | far off, afar, far away |
| 7 | Latin | commūnicāre | — |
| 8 | Latin | commūnis | common, commonplace, ordinary, general, universal, shared, shared alike, of both sides, belonging to two or more together |
| 9 | Old Latin | com(m)oinis | — |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | kommoinis | common |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱom-moy-ni- | held in common |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 14 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 15 | German | kitt | putty certain kinds of cement used for fixing e.g. window panes |
| 16 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 17 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 18 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |