Where does “throughput” come from?
Throughput comes from English through and put, where put derives from Old French pute, from Old French putain, from Latin puta, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European terh₂- meaning to rub or turn.
throughput (English): The rate at which data is transferred through a...
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- The rate at which data is transferred through a...
Ancestry of “throughput”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | put | To place something somewhere; To bring or set... |
| 2 | Old French | pute | nominative singular of putain; dirty woman; whore |
| 3 | Vulgar Latin | putta | prostitute |
| 4 | Latin | puta | second-person singular present active imperative... |
| 5 | Latin | puto | I clean, cleanse; I trim, prune, lop; I arrange,... |
| 6 | Latin | putus | pure; a boy |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | puHtós | pure, clean |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | pewH- | to be clean, pure |