Where does “microfiche” come from?

microfiche (French) comes from French fiche, from French ficher, from Old French fichier, from Vulgar Latin *fīgicāre, from Latin fīgō, from Proto-Italic feigʷō — to insert; to fasten.

microfiche (French): microfiche

Definitions

  1. microfiche

Ancestry of “microfiche”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchfichecard; plug; first-person singular present...
2Frenchficherto plug in; to drive something in by its point,...
3Old Frenchfichierto pierce
4Vulgar Latin*fīgicāre
5Latinfīgōto fasten, fix
6Proto-Italicfeigʷōto insert; to fasten

Words derived from “microfiche

Every word from Proto-Italic feigʷō
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