Where does “saliency” come from?
Saliency derives from English salient, from Latin saliens meaning "jumping or leaping," from Latin salio "to jump," combined with Latin -ia and Ancient Greek -ία, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European ser-.
saliency (English): the quality of being salient; salience
Definitions
- the quality of being salient; salience
Ancestry of “saliency”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | -cy | Used to form nouns of state, condition or quality... |
| 2 | Anglo-Norman | -cie | — |
| 3 | Latin | -tia | office, rank |
| 4 | Latin | -ia | Used to form a feminine abstract noun, usually... |
| 5 | Latin | -ius | forming adjectives from nouns; nominative neuter... |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | -jōs | Forms comparative adjectives |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -yós | Creates adjectives from noun or verb stems |