Where does “unvitation” come from?
unvitation (English) comes from English invitation, from Middle French invitation, from Latin invitatio, from Latin -tiō, from Latin dissertātiō, from Latin dissertus, from Latin disserere, from Latin dis- — small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble.
unvitation (English): A notification that someone is expressly not invited to an event or group
Definitions
- A notification that someone is expressly not invited to an event or group
Ancestry of “unvitation”, step by step
unvitation traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English invitation
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | invitation | The act of inviting; solicitation; the requesting... |
| 2 | Middle French | invitation | — |
| 3 | Latin | invitatio | invitation; incitement, challenge |
| 4 | Latin | -tiō | tion, -ation, -ing |
| 5 | Latin | dissertātiō | (spoken) dissertation, discourse, disquisition |
| 6 | Latin | dissertus | arranged, disposed; explained |
| 7 | Latin | disserere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 8 | Latin | dis- | asunder, apart, in two; reversal, removal;... |
| 9 | Latin | calceus | shoe |
| 10 | Latin | calx | limestone; chalk; the finish line |
| 11 | Ancient Greek | χάλιξ | small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble |
via English uninvited
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | uninvited | Not invited; simple past tense and past... |
| 2 | English | Un- | not |
| 3 | Middle English | un- | — |
| 4 | Old English | un- | negation or absence of: un-, non-; bad; forms... |
| 5 | Proto-West Germanic | un- | not, un- |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | un- | not, un- |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | n̥- | not, un- |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | ne | not |