Where does “inverse” come from?
inverse (French) comes from Latin inversus, from Latin inverto, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en, from Proto-Indo-European h₁én — in.
inverse (French): inverse, the other way round; the inverse, the...
Definitions
- inverse, the other way round; the inverse, the...
Ancestry of “inverse”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Latin | inversus | inverted, upset, turned upside down |
| 2 | Latin | inverto | I turn upside-down, over or around, invert,... |
| 3 | Latin | īn- | — |
| 4 | Latin | în | — |
| 5 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |
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