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Where does “minimessage” come from?

minimessage (French) comes from French message, from Old French message, from Latin missāticum, from Latin missus, from Latin -tus, from Proto-Italic -tus, from Proto-Indo-European -tus — Derives action nouns from verb roots.

minimessage (French): text message

Definitions

  1. text message

Ancestry of “minimessage”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchmessagemessage
2Old Frenchmessagemessage; messenger
3Latinmissāticum—
4Latinmissussent, having been sent, caused to go, having been...
5Latin-tusForms the past participle of verbs; Forms...
6Proto-Italic-tus—
7Proto-Indo-European-tusDerives action nouns from verb roots
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tus →