Where does “photosensibilité” come from?
photosensibilité (French) comes from French sensibilité, from Latin sensibilitas, from Latin sēnsibilis, from Latin sentiō, from Latin -torium, from Latin -tōrius, from Latin -tor, from Proto-Italic -tōr.
photosensibilité (French): photosensitivity
Definitions
- photosensitivity
Ancestry of “photosensibilité”, step by step
photosensibilité traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via French sensibilité
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | sensibilité | sensitivity |
| 2 | Latin | sensibilitas | sense, meaning; sensibility |
| 3 | Latin | sēnsibilis | perceptible, sensible (that can be perceived by the senses) |
| 4 | Latin | sentiō | to feel, to sense, to perceive (with the senses) |
| 5 | Latin | -torium | nominative neuter singular of -tōrius; accusative... |
| 6 | Latin | -tōrius | ory |
| 7 | Latin | -tor | -er |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | -tōr | Forms agent nouns to verb stems |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -tōr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -tor-s | — |
via French photosensible
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | photosensible | photosensitive |
| 2 | French | photo- | light; photo |
| 3 | Ancient Greek | φωτός | genitive singular of φῶς; light; of light |
| 4 | Ancient Greek | φῶς | Attic form of φᾰ́ος |
| 5 | Proto-Hellenic | pʰáos | — |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰéh₂os | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰeh₂- | to shine, glow light; to speak, say |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰeh₂-s-ri- | — |