Where does “website” come from?
Website derives from English site, from Middle English webbe, from Old English webba, from Latin situs meaning positioned place, from Latin sinere meaning to allow, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European webʰ-.
website (English): A collection of interlinked web pages on the...
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- A collection of interlinked web pages on the...
Ancestry of “website”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | site | Sorrow, grief; The place where anything is fixed;... |
| 2 | Middle English | site | — |
| 3 | Anglo-Norman | site | site; location |
| 4 | Latin | situs | permitted, allowed, suffered, having been... |
| 5 | Latin | -tus | Forms the past participle of verbs; Forms... |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | -tus | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -tus | Derives action nouns from verb roots |
Words derived from “website”