Where does “antenna” come from?

antenna (Latin) comes from Proto-Italic antitempnā, from Proto-Indo-European ten- — to stretch, to extend.

antenna (Latin): yard on a ship; antenna in insects etc

Definitions

  1. yard on a ship; antenna in insects etc

Ancestry of “antenna”, step by step

antenna traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Proto-Italic antitempnā

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Italicantitempnā—
2Proto-Indo-Europeanten-to stretch, to extend

via Latin antemna

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1LatinantemnaClassical form of antenna

Words derived from “antenna”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European ten- →