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Where does “output” come from?

Output comes from English out and putative Old French pute, putain, Latin puta, puer, putus, ultimately from Latin puer meaning boy or servant.

output (English): Production; quantity produced, created, or...

Definitions

  1. Production; quantity produced, created, or...

Ancestry of “output”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishputTo place something somewhere; To bring or set...
2Old Frenchputenominative singular of putain; dirty woman; whore
3Vulgar Latinputtaprostitute
4Latinputasecond-person singular present active imperative...
5LatinputoI clean, cleanse; I trim, prune, lop; I arrange,...
6Latinputuspure; a boy
7Proto-Indo-EuropeanpuHtóspure, clean
8Proto-Indo-EuropeanpewH-to be clean, pure

Words derived from “output”

  • multioutput
  • nonoutput
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