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
- The condition of being self-adjoint
Ancestry of “self-adjointness”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | self-adjoint | Adjoint to itself; Being a Hilbert space operator... |
| 2 | English | adjoint | That is related to another functor by an... |
| 3 | French | adjoindre | to adjoin; to join up |
| 4 | Middle French | adjoindre | — |
| 5 | Old French | ajoindre | — |
| 6 | Latin | adiungō | — |
| 7 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 8 | Latin | īn- | — |
| 9 | Latin | în | — |
| 10 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |