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
- Production; quantity produced, created, or...
Ancestry of “output”, step by step
output traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English put
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | put | To place something somewhere; To bring or set... |
| 2 | Old French | pute | nominative singular of putain; dirty woman; whore |
| 3 | Vulgar Latin | putta | prostitute |
| 4 | Latin | puta | second-person singular present active imperative... |
| 5 | Latin | puto | I clean, cleanse; I trim, prune, lop; I arrange,... |
| 6 | Latin | putus | pure; a boy |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | puHtós | pure, clean |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | pewH- | to be clean, pure |