Where does “radiodifusión” come from?
radiodifusión (Spanish) comes from Spanish radio, from French radium, from French radioactif, from French actif, from Old French actif, from Latin āctīvus, from Ancient Greek ἐνεργητικός, from Ancient Greek ἐνεργέω.
radiodifusión (Spanish): radio broadcast
Definitions
- radio broadcast
Ancestry of “radiodifusión”, step by step
radiodifusión traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Spanish radio
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spanish | radio | radio; radius; radium |
| 2 | French | radium | radium |
| 3 | French | radioactif | radioactive |
| 4 | French | actif | active; asset; top |
| 5 | Old French | actif | active |
| 6 | Latin | āctīvus | active |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | ἐνεργητικός | Able to act on; acting on; Active; In the active... |
| 8 | Ancient Greek | ἐνεργέω | to be in action or activity, to operate; to... |
| 9 | Ancient Greek | ἐνεργός | at work, active |
| 10 | Ancient Greek | ἐν- | in, within; on |
| 11 | Ancient Greek | ἐν | in, on, at; among; in, at, or during the time of |
| 12 | Ancient Greek | δέρμα | skin, hide |
| 13 | Ancient Greek | γλυφή | carving, carved work; hole cut |
| 14 | Ancient Greek | -ῐ́ᾱ | {{l|en|-ia}}; "suffix forming abstract feminine... |
| 15 | Proto-Indo-European | -íh₂ | — |
via Spanish difusión
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spanish | difusión | dissemination, spreading, spread, diffusion,... |
| 2 | Latin | diffusio | spreading out, increase in extent or breadth |
| 3 | Latin | diffundō | to diffuse, scatter |
| 4 | Latin | fundō | to pour out, shed |
| 5 | Latin | fundus | bottom; farm; piece of land; estate; ground |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰudʰmḗn | bottom |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | dʰewbʰ- | deep |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | dʰewh₂- | smoke; mist, haze |