| 1 | Italian | élite | elite |
| 2 | French | élite | elite |
| 3 | French | élit | third-person singular present indicative of... |
| 4 | Old French | eslit | chosen, elected |
| 5 | Old French | elire | — |
| 6 | Latin | eligere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 7 | Latin | eligo | I choose, I pluck or root out, extract; I pick... |
| 8 | Latin | e- | Alternative form of ex-; out of; out, utterly |
| 9 | Latin | ex- | out, away; throughout; thoroughly |
| 10 | Latin | e | The name of the letter "E"; out of, from |
| 11 | Latin | ex | A name of the letter "X"; out of, from |
| 12 | Latin | commūnicō | — |
| 13 | Latin | commūnis | — |
| 14 | Old Latin | com(m)oinis | — |
| 15 | Proto-Italic | kommoinis | — |
| 16 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱom-moy-ni- | held in common |
| 17 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 18 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 19 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 20 | Middle Dutch | kitte | a wooden vessel made of hooped staves; wooden... |