Where does “quasistructured” come from?
quasistructured (English) comes from English quasi, from Latin quasi, from Latin quā, from Latin quī, from Latin -cumque, from Latin cumque, from Latin cum, from Old Latin com — resin, gum; to say, speak.
quasistructured (English): Partially structured; having both structured and free-form elements
Definitions
- Partially structured; having both structured and free-form elements
Ancestry of “quasistructured”, step by step
quasistructured traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English quasi
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | quasi | resembling or having a likeness to something |
| 2 | Latin | quasi | as if; as |
| 3 | Latin | quā | where |
| 4 | Latin | quī | who, that, which, what |
| 5 | Latin | -cumque | Used to derive indefinite adjectives, adverbs and... |
| 6 | Latin | cumque | however, whenever, howsoever, whensoever |
| 7 | Latin | cum | with, along with; at; -fold |
| 8 | Old Latin | com | Alternative form of cum |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | kom | with, along, at |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 12 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 13 | German | kitt | putty certain kinds of cement used for fixing e.g. window panes |
| 14 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 15 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 16 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |
| 17 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷet- | resin, gum; to say, speak |
via English structured
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | structured | having structure; organized; simple past tense... |
| 2 | English | structure | A cohesive whole built up of distinct parts; The... |
| 3 | Middle French | structure | — |
| 4 | Latin | structūra | the practice or process of building, construction |
| 5 | Latin | struō | to place one thing on top of another, to pile up, join together |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | strowō | pile up; construct, build |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | strew- | to spread, to strew |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | sterh₃- | to spread, extend, stretch out |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | ster- | sterile, infertile |