Where does “ubiquity” come from?

Ubiquity comes from Middle French ubiquité, from Latin ubique meaning "everywhere," derived from ubi "where" with the conjunction -kʷe "and," ultimately from Greek κύβος.

ubiquity (English): The state or quality of being, or appearing to...

Definitions

  1. The state or quality of being, or appearing to...

Ancestry of “ubiquity”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Medieval Latinubīquitās
2Latinubiqueeverywhere
3Latin-queand, a copulative particle affixed to the word it...
4Proto-Italic-kʷeand; Forms distributives from interrogatives
5Proto-Indo-European-kʷeand; Forms distributives from interrogatives

Words derived from “ubiquity

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -kʷeEvery word from Latin -queEvery word from Latin ubique