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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

  1. The state or quality of being supervenient, of...

Ancestry of “supervenience”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishsupervenientIn a relationship with another set such that...
2Latinsuperveniō—
3Latinsuper-super-; over, above
4Latinsuper"accusative" above, on the top of, upon;...
5Latineks-uper—
6Proto-Indo-Europeanupérialternative reconstruction of *upér
7Proto-Indo-Europeanupérabove; over
8Proto-Indo-Europeanupóunder, below
9Proto-Indo-Europeanh₃ewp-—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₃ewp- →