Where does “transfemorally” come from?
transfemorally (English) comes from English transfemoral, from English trans, from English transgender, from English gender, from Middle English gender, from Middle French gendre, from Latin genus, from Proto-Italic genos — to produce, to beget, to give birth.
transfemorally (English): Across the femur
Definitions
- Across the femur
Ancestry of “transfemorally”, step by step
transfemorally traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English transfemoral
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | transfemoral | Across the femur |
| 2 | English | trans | In a double bond in which the greater radical on... |
| 3 | English | transgender | Having a gender which is different from the sex... |
| 4 | English | gender | kind |
| 5 | Middle English | gender | — |
| 6 | Middle French | gendre | — |
| 7 | Latin | genus | birth, origin, lineage, descent; kind, type,... |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | genos | lineage, origin |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵénh₁os | race, lineage |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵenh₁- | to produce, to beget, to give birth |