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Where does “transposition” come from?

transposition (Middle French) comes from Latin transpositio.

Ancestry of “transposition”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latintranspositio—

Words derived from “transposition”

  • transposition
  • retrotransposition
  • transpositional
  • transpositionally
Every word from Latin transpositio →