Where does “transdeletion” come from?
transdeletion (English) comes from English deletion, from Latin dēlētiō, from Latin -tiō, from Latin dissertātiō, from Latin dissertus, from Latin disserere, from Latin dis-, from Latin calceus — small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble.
transdeletion (English): The process of forming an anagram of a word with one letter deleted (e.g. indicator from dictionary), a form of recreational wordplay
Definitions
- The process of forming an anagram of a word with one letter deleted (e.g. indicator from dictionary), a form of recreational wordplay
Ancestry of “transdeletion”, step by step
transdeletion traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English deletion
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | deletion | An item that has been or will be deleted; The act... |
| 2 | Latin | dēlētiō | annihilation, destruction |
| 3 | Latin | -tiō | tion, -ation, -ing |
| 4 | Latin | dissertātiō | (spoken) dissertation, discourse, disquisition |
| 5 | Latin | dissertus | arranged, disposed; explained |
| 6 | Latin | disserere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 7 | Latin | dis- | asunder, apart, in two; reversal, removal;... |
| 8 | Latin | calceus | shoe |
| 9 | Latin | calx | limestone; chalk; the finish line |
| 10 | Ancient Greek | χάλιξ | small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble |
via English trans
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | trans | In a double bond in which the greater radical on... |
| 2 | English | transgender | Having a gender which is different from the sex... |
| 3 | English | gender | kind |
| 4 | Middle English | gender | — |
| 5 | Middle French | gendre | — |
| 6 | Latin | genus | birth, origin, lineage, descent; kind, type,... |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | genos | lineage, origin |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵénh₁os | race, lineage |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵenh₁- | to produce, to beget, to give birth |