Where does “unemotional” come from?
Unemotional derives from English emotional, which comes from English emotion, ultimately tracing through French émouvoir and Proto-Indo-European roots meaning to move or agitate.
unemotional (English): Showing little or no feeling; Reasoned and...
Definitions
- Showing little or no feeling; Reasoned and...
Ancestry of “unemotional”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | emotional | Of or relating to the emotions; Characterised by... |
| 2 | English | emotion | movement; agitation; A person's internal state of... |
| 3 | French | émotion | emotion |
| 4 | French | -tion | Used to indicate action, condition, result or... |
| 5 | Latin | -tiō | tion, -ation, -ing |
| 6 | Latin | dissertātiō | (spoken) dissertation, discourse, disquisition |
| 7 | Latin | dissertus | arranged, disposed; explained |
| 8 | Latin | disserere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 9 | Latin | dis- | asunder, apart, in two; reversal, removal;... |
| 10 | Latin | calceus | shoe |
| 11 | Latin | calx | limestone; chalk; the finish line |
| 12 | Ancient Greek | χάλιξ | small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble |