Where does “number close” come from?

number close (English) comes from English close, from Middle English closen, from Old English clȳsan, from Old English klūsijan, from Latin clausum, from Latin clausus, from Latin claudere, from Latin claudo — close.

number close (English): To end a pickup of a woman by getting her...

Definitions

  1. To end a pickup of a woman by getting her...

Ancestry of “number close”, step by step

number close traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English close

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishcloseTo remove a gap; To finish, to terminate; To come...
2Middle Englishclosento close, enclose
3Old Englishclȳsanto close, shut
4Old Englishklūsijanto close, shut in
5Latinclausumenclosed space, enclosure; nominative neuter...
6Latinclaususclosed, inaccessible; having been closed;...
7Latinclauderepresent active infinitive of claudō;...
8LatinclaudoI shut, close, lock; I imprison, confine; I...
9Proto-Italicklaudōclose

via English number

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishnumberAn abstract entity used to describe quantity; A...
2EnglishnumbPhysically unable to feel, not having the power...
3EnglishnimTo take or seize; To filch, steal; To walk with...
4Middle Englishnimento take
5Old Englishnimanto take, seize
6Proto-West Germanicnemanto take
7Proto-Germanicnemanąto take
8Proto-Indo-Europeannem-to distribute; to give, to take
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