Where does “radiopager” come from?
radiopager (English) comes from English radio, from English radiotelegraphy, from English telegraphy, from English Telegraph, from French télégraphe, from French télé-, from Ancient Greek τῆλε, from Latin commūnicāre — a wooden vessel made of hooped staves; wooden...
radiopager (English): A pager that operates by means of radio signals
Definitions
- A pager that operates by means of radio signals
Ancestry of “radiopager”, step by step
radiopager traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English radio
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | radio | The technology that allows for the transmission... |
| 2 | English | radiotelegraphy | The process and techniques of sending telegrams... |
| 3 | English | telegraphy | communication at a distance by means of the... |
| 4 | English | Telegraph | any process for transmitting arbitrarily long messages over a long distance using a symbolic code |
| 5 | French | télégraphe | telegraph |
| 6 | French | télé- | tele- |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | τῆλε | far off, afar, far away |
| 8 | Latin | commūnicāre | — |
| 9 | Latin | commūnis | common, commonplace, ordinary, general, universal, shared, shared alike, of both sides, belonging to two or more together |
| 10 | Old Latin | com(m)oinis | — |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | kommoinis | common |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱom-moy-ni- | held in common |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 15 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 16 | Middle Dutch | kitte | a wooden vessel made of hooped staves; wooden... |
via English pager
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | pager | A wireless telecommunications device that... |
| 2 | English | page | One of the many pieces of paper bound together... |
| 3 | French | page | page; page, web page; page, page boy |
| 4 | Italian | paggio | page; pageboy |
| 5 | Old French | page | page one face of a sheet of paper or similar material |
| 6 | Late Latin | pagius | servant; Servant |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | παιδίον | little child, young child |
| 8 | Ancient Greek | παῖς | child, son, daughter; young person, child, boy,... |
| 9 | Proto-Hellenic | pā́wits | child |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | péh₂wids | — |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | peh₂w- | few, little; smallness |