Where does “offsite” come from?
Offsite derives from English off- and site, where site comes from Middle English of-, Old English of-, and Latin situs meaning "placed" or "position," ultimately from Proto-Indo-European roots apo- and si-n-H-.
offsite (English): Away from a main location; in a place not owned...
Definitions
- Away from a main location; in a place not owned...
Ancestry of “offsite”, step by step
offsite traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English site
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | site | Sorrow, grief; The place where anything is fixed;... |
| 2 | Middle English | site | sorrow, grief |
| 3 | Anglo-Norman | site | site; location |
| 4 | Latin | situs | permitted, allowed, suffered, having been... |
| 5 | Latin | -tus | Forms the past participle of verbs; Forms... |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | -tus | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -tus | Derives action nouns from verb roots |