Where does “self-adjoint” come from?
self-adjoint (English) comes from English adjoint, from French adjoindre, from Middle French adjoindre, from Old French ajoindre, from Latin adiungō, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în — in.
self-adjoint (English): Adjoint to itself; Being a Hilbert space operator...
Definitions
- Adjoint to itself; Being a Hilbert space operator...
Ancestry of “self-adjoint”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | adjoint | That is related to another functor by an... |
| 2 | French | adjoindre | to adjoin; to join up |
| 3 | Middle French | adjoindre | — |
| 4 | Old French | ajoindre | — |
| 5 | Latin | adiungō | to add, join, attach, append, annex or bind to (something) |
| 6 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 7 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 8 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 9 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |