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
- The state or quality of being, or appearing to...
Ancestry of “ubiquity”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Medieval Latin | ubīquitās | — |
| 2 | Latin | ubique | everywhere |
| 3 | Latin | -que | and, a copulative particle affixed to the word it... |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | -kʷe | and; Forms distributives from interrogatives |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | -kʷe | and; Forms distributives from interrogatives |