Where does “preexcitation” come from?
preexcitation (English) comes from English excitation, from Old French excitation, from Latin excitatio, from Latin excitō, from Latin excieo, from Latin ex-, from Latin e, from Latin ex — a wooden vessel made of hooped staves; wooden...
preexcitation (English): early excitation; applied to a condition where...
Definitions
- early excitation; applied to a condition where...
Ancestry of “preexcitation”, step by step
preexcitation traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English excitation
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | excitation | The act of exciting or putting in motion; the act... |
| 2 | Old French | excitation | — |
| 3 | Latin | excitatio | wakening; rousing; excitation |
| 4 | Latin | excitō | to call forth: to rouse, awaken, summon |
| 5 | Latin | excieo | Alternative form of exciō; call out, arouse,... |
| 6 | Latin | ex- | out, away; throughout; thoroughly |
| 7 | Latin | e | The name of the letter "E"; out of, from |
| 8 | Latin | ex | A name of the letter "X"; out of, from |
| 9 | Latin | commūnicō | to impart, share |
| 10 | Latin | commūnis | common, commonplace, ordinary, general, universal, shared, shared alike, of both sides, belonging to two or more together |
| 11 | Old Latin | com(m)oinis | — |
| 12 | Proto-Italic | kommoinis | common |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱom-moy-ni- | held in common |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 15 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 16 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 17 | Middle Dutch | kitte | a wooden vessel made of hooped staves; wooden... |
via English pre
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | pre | Before; Precum, Cowper's fluid, pre-ejaculate; To... |
| 2 | Latin | prae | before; in front; in front of |
| 3 | Proto-Italic | prai | before; in front of |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | preh₂- | before, in front |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | per- | before, in front; first; to go through |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | pr̥tós | passed , crossed |