Where does “prepaleolithic” come from?

prepaleolithic (English) comes from English Paleolithic, from English -lithic, from English -ic, from English image, from French image, from Portuguese imagem, from Spanish imagen, from Italian immagine — in.

prepaleolithic (English): Before the Paleolithic era

Definitions

  1. Before the Paleolithic era

Ancestry of “prepaleolithic”, step by step

prepaleolithic traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English Paleolithic

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishPaleolithicOf or referring to the Old Stone Age
2English-lithicRelated to stone
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-un-, non-, not
12Latinînin, at, on, upon, from (space)
13Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
14Proto-Italicenin
15Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin

via English pre

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishpreBefore; Precum, Cowper's fluid, pre-ejaculate; To...
2Latinpraebefore; in front; in front of
3Proto-Italicpraibefore; in front of
4Proto-Indo-Europeanpreh₂-before, in front
5Proto-Indo-Europeanper-before, in front; first; to go through
6Proto-Indo-Europeanpr̥tóspassed , crossed
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁énEvery word from Latin īn-Every word from Proto-Italic en