Where does “binær” come from?

binær (Norwegian Nynorsk) comes from French binaire, from Latin bīnārius, from Latin -ārius, from Proto-Italic *-āzios — Forms relational adjectives to nouns (and rarely numerals).

binær (Norwegian Nynorsk): binary

Definitions

  1. binary

Ancestry of “binær”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchbinairebinary; binary file
2Latinbīnāriusdual
3Latin-āriuser
4Proto-Italic*-āziosForms relational adjectives to nouns (and rarely numerals)
Every word from Proto-Italic *-āziosEvery word from Latin -āriusEvery word from Latin bīnārius