Where does “incidence” come from?
incidence (Middle French) comes from Medieval Latin incidentia, from Latin incidens, from Latin incidere, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en, from Proto-Indo-European h₁én — in.
incidence (Middle French): incident; event; occurrence
Definitions
- incident; event; occurrence
Ancestry of “incidence”, step by step
incidence traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Medieval Latin incidentia
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Medieval Latin | incidentia | a falling upon; incident, occurrence, happening;... |
| 2 | Latin | incidens | falling upon; cutting up, hewing open;... |
| 3 | Latin | incidere | present active infinitive of incidō;... |
| 4 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 5 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 6 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |
via Latin incidentia
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | incidentia | incident, occurrence, happening; incidence;... |
| 2 | Latin | incidō | to cut or hew open, into, through, or up; to dissect, slit, sever; to clip |
| 3 | Latin | cadō | to fall, to fall out |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | kadō | fall, sink |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱad- | to fall |