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Where does “turbo-ramjet” come from?

turbo-ramjet (English) comes from English ramjet, from English jet, from French jet, from Old French get, from Vulgar Latin iectus, from Latin iactus, from Latin iacere, from Latin iaceō — Creates transitive imperfective verbs from roots.

turbo-ramjet (English): A turbine-based combined-cycle ramjet engine

Definitions

  1. A turbine-based combined-cycle ramjet engine

Ancestry of “turbo-ramjet”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishramjetA jet engine in which forward motion forces air...
2EnglishjetA collimated stream, spurt or flow of liquid or...
3Frenchjetthrow; spurt, spout, jet; jet
4Old Frenchget—
5Vulgar Latiniectus—
6Latiniactusthrown, having been thrown, hurled, having been...
7Latiniacerepresent active infinitive of iaciō; second-person...
8Latiniaceō—
9Latin-eō—
10Proto-Italic-ēōForms stative verbs, indicating a state of being;...
11Proto-Italic-ējō—
12Proto-Indo-European-éh₁yetiThematicization of the athematic stative verbal...
13Proto-Indo-European-yetiCreates transitive imperfective verbs from roots
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