Where does “preimage” come from?

preimage (English) comes from English image, from French image, from Portuguese imagem, from Spanish imagen, from Italian immagine, from Latin imāginem, from Latin im-, from Latin īn- — in.

preimage (English): For a given function, the set of all elements of...

Definitions

  1. For a given function, the set of all elements of...

Ancestry of “preimage”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishimageAn optical or other representation of a real...
2Frenchimagepicture, image; frame; first-person singular...
3Portugueseimagemimage; picture; figure; image; image; face
4Spanishimagenimage
5Italianimmagineimage; imago
6Latinimāginem
7Latinim-Alternative form of in-; form of "in"; in
8Latinīn-un-, non-, not
9Latinînin, at, on, upon, from (space)
10Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
11Proto-Italicenin
12Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁énEvery word from Latin īn-Every word from Proto-Italic en
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