Where does “transmodulation” come from?
transmodulation (English) comes from English modulation, from Middle French modulation, from Latin modulatio, from Latin modulatus, from Latin modulor, from Latin modulus, from Latin -ulus, from Proto-Italic -olos — Forms agent nouns from verbal roots.
transmodulation (English): The modulation of a secondary system
Definitions
- The modulation of a secondary system
Ancestry of “transmodulation”, step by step
transmodulation traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English modulation
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | modulation | The process of applying a signal to a carrier;... |
| 2 | Middle French | modulation | — |
| 3 | Latin | modulatio | a regular measure, rhythmical measure,... |
| 4 | Latin | modulatus | measured |
| 5 | Latin | modulor | I measure; I regulate; I beat time |
| 6 | Latin | modulus | a small measure or interval; a module; a water... |
| 7 | Latin | -ulus | Used to form a diminutive of a noun, indicating... |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | -olos | — |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | -elos | Forms desubstantival and deadjectival diminutive nouns |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -e-lós | — |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | -lós | Forms agent nouns from verbal 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 |