Where does “ubiquitous” come from?
Ubiquitous comes from Latin ubique, from Latin ubi meaning "where" combined with Proto-Italic -kʷe, ultimately related to Latin cubus and Ancient Greek κύβος.
ubiquitous (English): Being everywhere at once: omnipresent; Appearing...
Definitions
- Being everywhere at once: omnipresent; Appearing...
Ancestry of “ubiquitous”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | ubiquity | The state or quality of being, or appearing to... |
| 2 | Medieval Latin | ubīquitās | — |
| 3 | Latin | ubique | everywhere |
| 4 | Latin | -que | and, a copulative particle affixed to the word it... |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | -kʷe | and; Forms distributives from interrogatives |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -kʷe | and; Forms distributives from interrogatives |
Words derived from “ubiquitous”