Where does “paraunitary” come from?
paraunitary (English) comes from English Pará, from Portuguese Pará, from Portuguese Pera, from Portuguese espera, from Portuguese esperar, from Old Portuguese asperar, from Old Spanish esperar, from Latin spērō — to succeed, to prosper.
paraunitary (English): Of or relating to a kind of matrix that occurs in the construction of filter banks used in multirate digital systems
Definitions
- Of or relating to a kind of matrix that occurs in the construction of filter banks used in multirate digital systems
Ancestry of “paraunitary”, step by step
paraunitary traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English Pará
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | Pará | A former subunit of currency in several countries in the Ottoman/Turkish and Yugoslav regions |
| 2 | Portuguese | Pará | a state in the North Region of Brazil |
| 3 | Portuguese | Pera | pear |
| 4 | Portuguese | espera | wait |
| 5 | Portuguese | esperar | to wait; to hope; to expect; to anticipate |
| 6 | Old Portuguese | asperar | — |
| 7 | Old Spanish | esperar | to wait for, await |
| 8 | Latin | spērō | to hope, expect |
| 9 | Latin | spes | hope; expectation, anticipation, apprehension |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | spēs | hope |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | spéh₁s | prosperity, success |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | speh₁- | to succeed, to prosper |
via English unitary
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | unitary | Having the quality of oneness; That concentrates... |
| 2 | English | unit | Oneness, singularity, seen as a component of a... |
| 3 | English | unite | To bring together as one; To come together as... |
| 4 | Middle English | uniten | to annex; to unite |
| 5 | Latin | ūnītus | united |
| 6 | Latin | ūniō | a unity, union |
| 7 | Latin | -iō | — |
| 8 | Proto-West Germanic | -jō | Forms agent nouns from verbs |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -yéti | Creates intransitive, often deponent,... |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | yé- | — |
| 11 | Chichewa | iye | he, she |