Where does “nontransitivity” come from?
nontransitivity (English) comes from English transitivity, from French transitivité, from French transitif, from Dutch transitief, from Latin trānsitīvus, from Latin trānsitus, from Latin trānseō, from Latin trāns — smoke; mist, haze.
nontransitivity (English): The property of a binary relation that is not transitive; that is, there exist x, y, and z such that Rxy and Ryz hold but Rxz does not hold
Definitions
- The property of a binary relation that is not transitive; that is, there exist x, y, and z such that Rxy and Ryz hold but Rxz does not hold
Ancestry of “nontransitivity”, step by step
nontransitivity traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English transitivity
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | transitivity | The degree in which any one verb can take/govern... |
| 2 | French | transitivité | transitivity |
| 3 | French | transitif | transitive |
| 4 | Dutch | transitief | transitive |
| 5 | Latin | trānsitīvus | transiting passing over |
| 6 | Latin | trānsitus | traversed, passed through |
| 7 | Latin | trānseō | to traverse; cross, cross over; go across or over; pass, pass through, over or by |
| 8 | Latin | trāns | across, beyond |
| 9 | Latin | Padus | the River Po |
| 10 | Lepontic | Bodincus | — |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰudʰmḗn | bottom |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | dʰewbʰ- | deep |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | dʰewh₂- | smoke; mist, haze |