Where does “reinvention” come from?
Reinvention comes from Middle English re- + invention, from Latin inventio (a finding or discovering), formed from re- + invenire (to come upon), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European gʷem- (to go).
reinvention (English): A reinventing of something; The condition of...
Definitions
- A reinventing of something; The condition of...
Ancestry of “reinvention”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | invention | Something invented; The act of inventing; The... |
| 2 | Old French | invencion | — |
| 3 | Latin | inventiō | invention, discovery |
| 4 | Latin | -tiō | tion, -ation, -ing |
| 5 | Latin | dissertātiō | (spoken) dissertation, discourse, disquisition |
| 6 | Latin | dissertus | arranged, disposed; explained |
| 7 | Latin | disserere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 8 | Latin | dis- | asunder, apart, in two; reversal, removal;... |
| 9 | Latin | calceus | shoe |
| 10 | Latin | calx | limestone; chalk; the finish line |
| 11 | Ancient Greek | χάλιξ | small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble |