Where does “transitivity” come from?
Transitivity comes from French transitivité, from French -ité, from Latin -itas, from Latin -ivus, from Latin itus, from Latin -itas, from Latin is.
transitivity (English): The degree in which any one verb can take/govern...
Definitions
- The degree in which any one verb can take/govern...
Ancestry of “transitivity”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | transitivité | transitivity |
| 2 | French | transitif | transitive |
| 3 | Dutch | transitief | transitive |
| 4 | Latin | trānsitīvus | transiting passing over |
| 5 | Latin | trānsitus | traversed, passed through |
| 6 | Latin | trānseō | to traverse; cross, cross over; go across or over; pass, pass through, over or by |
| 7 | Latin | trāns | across, beyond |
| 8 | Latin | Padus | the River Po |
| 9 | Lepontic | Bodincus | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰudʰmḗn | bottom |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | dʰewbʰ- | deep |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | dʰewh₂- | smoke; mist, haze |