Where does “supervenience” come from?
Supervenience comes from Middle English -ence, from Old French -ence, from Latin -entia, a suffix forming abstract nouns from adjectives.
supervenience (English): The state or quality of being supervenient, of...
Definitions
- The state or quality of being supervenient, of...
Ancestry of “supervenience”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | supervenient | In a relationship with another set such that... |
| 2 | Latin | superveniō | to overtake, come upon |
| 3 | Latin | super- | super-; over, above |
| 4 | Latin | super | "accusative" above, on the top of, upon;... |
| 5 | Latin | eks-uper | — |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | upéri | alternative reconstruction of *upér |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | upér | above; over |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | upó | under, below |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | h₃ewp- | — |