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

Definitions

  1. self-adjoint

Ancestry of “autoadjoint”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchadjointdeputy, assistant; adjunct; past participle of...
2Frenchadjoindreto adjoin; to join up
3Middle Frenchadjoindre
4Old Frenchajoindre
5Latinadiungōto add, join, attach, append, annex or bind to (something)
6Latinad-to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it...
7Latinīn-un-, non-, not
8Latinînin, at, on, upon, from (space)
9Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
10Proto-Italicenin
11Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁énEvery word from Latin īn-Every word from Latin ad-