Where does “omnicomprehensiveness” come from?
omnicomprehensiveness (English) comes from English comprehensiveness, from English comprehensive, from Middle French compréhensif, from Latin comprehēnsīvus, from Latin comprehendō, from Latin cōn-, from Latin cum, from Old Latin com — to bend; curve; arch; vault; to bow, bend, arch,...
omnicomprehensiveness (English): The state of being omnicomprehensive; thoroughgoing comprehension
Definitions
- The state of being omnicomprehensive; thoroughgoing comprehension
Ancestry of “omnicomprehensiveness”, step by step
omnicomprehensiveness traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English comprehensiveness
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | comprehensiveness | The state of being comprehensive |
| 2 | English | comprehensive | Broadly or completely covering; including a large... |
| 3 | Middle French | compréhensif | — |
| 4 | Latin | comprehēnsīvus | comprehensible, perceivable, conceivable, graspable |
| 5 | Latin | comprehendō | to lay hold of something on all sides; take or catch hold of, grasp, grip |
| 6 | Latin | cōn- | Used in compounds to indicate a being or bringing together of several objects |
| 7 | Latin | cum | with, along with; at; -fold |
| 8 | Old Latin | com | Alternative form of cum |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | kom | with, along, at |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 12 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 13 | German | kitt | putty certain kinds of cement used for fixing e.g. window panes |
| 14 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 15 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 16 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |
| 17 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷet- | resin, gum; to say, speak |
| 18 | Proto-Indo-European | gū- | to bend; curve; arch; vault; to bow, bend, arch,... |
via English omni
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | omni | A person who is not vegan; one with no particular... |
| 2 | English | omnivore | An animal which is able to consume both plants (like a herbivore) and meat (like a carnivore) |
| 3 | Latin | omnivorus | eating all things, all-devouring, omnivorous |
| 4 | Latin | -vorus | -eating, -devouring |
| 5 | Latin | -us | suffix forming adjectives from nouns, verbs,... |
| 6 | Old Latin | -os | accusative masculine plural of -us |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | -os | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -ós | Creates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting... |