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Where does “polysystemicity” come from?

polysystemicity (English) comes from English polysystemic, from English systemic, from English -ic, from English image, from French image, from Portuguese imagem, from Spanish imagen, from Italian immagine — in.

polysystemicity (English): The quality of being polysystemic

Definitions

  1. The quality of being polysystemic

Ancestry of “polysystemicity”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishpolysystemicAffecting or relating to more than one system
2EnglishsystemicEmbedded within and spread throughout and...
3English-icUsed to form adjectives from nouns with the...
4EnglishimageAn optical or other representation of a real...
5Frenchimagepicture, image; frame; first-person singular...
6Portugueseimagemimage; picture; figure; image; image; face
7Spanishimagenimage
8Italianimmagineimage; imago
9Latinimāginem—
10Latinim-Alternative form of in-; form of "in"; in
11Latinīn-—
12Latinîn—
13Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
14Proto-Italicenin
15Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁én →