Where does “fixpont” come from?
fixpont (Hungarian) comes from Hungarian fix, from German fix, from French fixe, from Middle French fixe, from Old French fix, from Latin fīxus, from Latin fīgō, from Proto-Italic feigʷō — to insert; to fasten.
fixpont (Hungarian): fixed point
Definitions
- fixed point
Ancestry of “fixpont”, step by step
fixpont traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Hungarian fix
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hungarian | fix | fixed, steady; immovable; sure, certain |
| 2 | German | fix | fixed; quick; smart |
| 3 | French | fixe | fixed; first-person singular present indicative... |
| 4 | Middle French | fixe | fixed |
| 5 | Old French | fix | inflection of fil: ## oblique plural ##... |
| 6 | Latin | fīxus | unwavering |
| 7 | Latin | fīgō | to fasten, fix |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | feigʷō | to insert; to fasten |
via Hungarian pont
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hungarian | pont | exactly, just, precisely; point; dot, full stop,... |
| 2 | German | Punkt | dot; full stop, period; decimal point, point,... |
| 3 | Latin | pūnctum | point |
| 4 | Latin | punctus | pricked, punctured, pierced, having been pricked;... |
| 5 | Latin | -tus | Forms the past participle of verbs; Forms... |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | -tus | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -tus | Derives action nouns from verb roots |