Where does “translumination” come from?
translumination (English) comes from English lumination, from English luminate, from Latin luminatus, from Latin lūminō, from Latin lūmen, from English -escence, from Latin -escens, from Latin -esco — Creates transitive imperfective verbs from roots.
translumination (English): Alternative form of transillumination
Definitions
- Alternative form of transillumination
Ancestry of “translumination”, step by step
translumination traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English lumination
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | lumination | Illumination; "specifically", artificial... |
| 2 | English | luminate | To illuminate |
| 3 | Latin | luminatus | Possessing light; luminescence |
| 4 | Latin | lūminō | to illuminate |
| 5 | Latin | lūmen | light, source of light |
| 6 | English | -escence | a specified process or state |
| 7 | Latin | -escens | — |
| 8 | Latin | -esco | Forms verbs from adjectives meaning "become " |
| 9 | Latin | -eo | Forms stative verbs from adjectives; dative... |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | -ēō | Forms stative verbs, indicating a state of being;... |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | -ējō | — |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | -éh₁yeti | Thematicization of the athematic stative verbal... |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | -yeti | Creates transitive imperfective verbs from roots |
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 |