Where does “notepad” come from?
Notepad is a compound of English note and English ped, where note derives from Latin nota, the feminine past participle of notare meaning "to mark," ultimately from Latin noscere meaning "to know."
notepad (English): A pad of paper, often bound, in which one jots...
Definitions
- A pad of paper, often bound, in which one jots...
Ancestry of “notepad”, step by step
notepad traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English pad
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | pad | A flattened mass of anything soft, to sit or lie... |
| 2 | Dutch | pad | path; toad; The slot in the frame that accepts... |
| 3 | Middle Dutch | pat | — |
| 4 | Old Dutch | path | — |
| 5 | Proto-West Germanic | paþ | path |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | paþaz | path |
| 7 | Proto-Iranian | pántaHh | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-Iranian | pántaHs | path |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | pent- | to pass; path |