Where does “pivot” come from?
Pivot comes from Old French pivot, a word of unknown origin denoting the pin or peg on which something turns.
pivot (English): A thing on which something turns; specifically a...
Definitions
- A thing on which something turns; specifically a...
Ancestry of “pivot”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Catalan | pevet | censer |
| 2 | Catalan | peu | foot |
| 3 | Old Occitan | pe | foot |
| 4 | Latin | pēdem | — |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | pṓds | foot |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | póds | foot |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | ped- | to walk, to step; to stumble, to fall |
Words derived from “pivot”