Where does “ubīquitās” come from?
ubīquitās (Medieval Latin) comes from Latin ubique, from Latin -que, from Proto-Italic -kʷe, from Proto-Indo-European -kʷe — and; Forms distributives from interrogatives.
Ancestry of “ubīquitās”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Latin | ubique | everywhere |
| 2 | Latin | -que | and, a copulative particle affixed to the word it... |
| 3 | Proto-Italic | -kʷe | and; Forms distributives from interrogatives |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | -kʷe | and; Forms distributives from interrogatives |