Where does “transfixie” come from?
transfixie (Romanian) comes from English transfixion, from English transfix, from English trans, from English transgender, from English gender, from Middle English gender, from Middle French gendre, from Latin genus — to produce, to beget, to give birth.
transfixie (Romanian): transfixion
Definitions
- transfixion
Ancestry of “transfixie”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | transfixion | In amputation, passing the knife from side to... |
| 2 | English | transfix | To render motionless, by arousing terror,... |
| 3 | English | trans | In a double bond in which the greater radical on... |
| 4 | English | transgender | Having a gender which is different from the sex... |
| 5 | English | gender | kind |
| 6 | Middle English | gender | — |
| 7 | Middle French | gendre | — |
| 8 | Latin | genus | birth, origin, lineage, descent; kind, type,... |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | genos | lineage, origin |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵénh₁os | race, lineage |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵenh₁- | to produce, to beget, to give birth |