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Where does “self-adjointness” come from?

self-adjointness (English) comes from English self-adjoint, from English adjoint, from French adjoindre, from Middle French adjoindre, from Old French ajoindre, from Latin adiungō, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn- — in.

self-adjointness (English): The condition of being self-adjoint

Definitions

  1. The condition of being self-adjoint

Ancestry of “self-adjointness”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Englishself-adjointAdjoint to itself; Being a Hilbert space operator...
2EnglishadjointThat is related to another functor by an...
3Frenchadjoindreto adjoin; to join up
4Middle Frenchadjoindre—
5Old Frenchajoindre—
6Latinadiungō—
7Latinad-to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it...
8Latinīn-—
9Latinîn—
10Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
11Proto-Italicenin
12Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁én →