Where does “autoadjoint” come from?
autoadjoint (French) comes from French adjoint, from French adjoindre, from Middle French adjoindre, from Old French ajoindre, from Latin adiungō, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în — in.
autoadjoint (French): self-adjoint
Ancestry of “autoadjoint”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | French | adjoint | deputy, assistant; adjunct; past participle of... |
| 2 | French | adjoindre | to adjoin; to join up |
| 3 | Middle French | adjoindre | — |
| 4 | Old French | ajoindre | — |
| 5 | Latin | adiungō | — |
| 6 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 7 | Latin | īn- | — |
| 8 | Latin | în | — |
| 9 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |