Where does “existence” come from?
existence (Old French) comes from Late Latin existentia, from Latin existens, from Latin existere, from Latin existo, from Latin ex, from Latin commūnicō, from Latin commūnis, from Old Latin com(m)oinis — resin.
Ancestry of “existence”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Late Latin | existentia | existence |
| 2 | Latin | existens | Alternative form of exsistens |
| 3 | Latin | existere | present active infinitive of existō |
| 4 | Latin | existo | Alternative form of exsistō; to stand forth, come... |
| 5 | Latin | ex | A name of the letter "X"; out of, from |
| 6 | Latin | commūnicō | — |
| 7 | Latin | commūnis | — |
| 8 | Old Latin | com(m)oinis | — |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | kommoinis | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱom-moy-ni- | held in common |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 13 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 14 | German | kitt | — |
| 15 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 16 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 17 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |
Words derived from “existence”