Where does “schedule” come from?
Schedule comes from Old French cedule, from Latin schedula, a diminutive formation ultimately deriving from Proto-Indo-European -lós.
schedule (English): A slip of paper; a short note; A written or...
Definitions
- A slip of paper; a short note; A written or...
Ancestry of “schedule”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle English | cedule | A written document or record |
| 2 | Middle French | cedule | — |
| 3 | Old French | cedule | — |
| 4 | Latin | schedula | leaf of paper |
| 5 | Latin | -ulus | Used to form a diminutive of a noun, indicating... |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | -olos | — |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | -elos | Forms desubstantival and deadjectival diminutive nouns |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -e-lós | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -lós | Forms agent nouns from verbal roots |