Where does “petapixel” come from?
petapixel (English) comes from English Peta, from English Peter, from Middle English Peter, from Latin Petrus, from Indonesian penembak, from Indonesian tembak, from Malay tembak, from Malay timbak.
petapixel (English): 1015 pixels, as a unit of graphical resolution
Definitions
- 1015 pixels, as a unit of graphical resolution
Ancestry of “petapixel”, step by step
petapixel traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English Peta
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | Peta | — |
| 2 | English | Peter | radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter P |
| 3 | Middle English | Peter | Peter |
| 4 | Latin | Petrus | Peter |
| 5 | Indonesian | penembak | shooter |
| 6 | Indonesian | tembak | to shoot to fire a shot |
| 7 | Malay | tembak | to shoot |
| 8 | Malay | timbak | Obsolete form of tembak |
| 9 | Proto-Malayic | timbak | — |
| 10 | Proto-Malayo-Polynesian | ti(m)bak | — |
via English pixel
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | pixel | One of the tiny dots that make up the... |
| 2 | English | pix | 1946, “Palisades Notes”, in "The Billboard",... |
| 3 | English | pictures | plural of picture; API pl; cinema, movie theatre |
| 4 | English | picture | A representation of anything upon canvas, paper,... |
| 5 | Middle English | pycture | — |
| 6 | Old French | picture | — |
| 7 | Latin | pictūra | painting, the art of painting |
| 8 | Latin | pingō | to decorate, adorn, embellish |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | peyḱ- | to hew, cut out; to stitch, embroider, sting; to... |