Where does “other-sexer” come from?
other-sexer (English) comes from English other-sex, from English other, from English kin, from English fictionkin, from English fiction, from Middle English ficcioun, from Old French ficcion, from Latin fictio — shoe.
other-sexer (English): A heterosexual
Definitions
- A heterosexual
Ancestry of “other-sexer”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | other-sex | Of or pertaining to attraction to the opposite... |
| 2 | English | other | See "other" below; Second; Alien |
| 3 | English | kin | Race; family; breed; kind; Persons of the same... |
| 4 | English | fictionkin | An individual whose personal identity is based in fiction of some kind: a fictional character, a fictional race or species, etc |
| 5 | English | fiction | Literary type using invented or imaginative... |
| 6 | Middle English | ficcioun | An invention or fabrication |
| 7 | Old French | ficcion | dissimulation, ruse, invention |
| 8 | Latin | fictio | fashioning, forming, formation; fiction |
| 9 | Latin | -tiō | tion, -ation, -ing |
| 10 | Latin | dissertātiō | (spoken) dissertation, discourse, disquisition |
| 11 | Latin | dissertus | arranged, disposed; explained |
| 12 | Latin | disserere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 13 | Latin | dis- | asunder, apart, in two; reversal, removal;... |
| 14 | Latin | calceus | shoe |