Where does “videoteksi” come from?

videoteksi (Finnish) comes from English videotex, from English text, from Middle English text, from Old French texte, from Medieval Latin textus, from Latin textus, from Latin -tus, from Proto-Italic -tus — Derives action nouns from verb roots.

videoteksi (Finnish): videotex, videotext

Definitions

  1. videotex, videotext

Ancestry of “videoteksi”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishvideotexAny of various early information retrieval...
2EnglishtextA writing consisting of multiple glyphs,...
3Middle Englishtext
4Old Frenchtextetext
5Medieval Latintextusthe Scriptures, text, treatise; text
6Latintextuswoven, having been woven; texture, structure;...
7Latin-tusForms the past participle of verbs; Forms...
8Proto-Italic-tus
9Proto-Indo-European-tusDerives action nouns from verb roots
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tusEvery word from Latin -tusEvery word from Latin textus