Etymology

arboricity

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Today it means: The minimum number of forests into which the edges of an undirected graph may be partitioned. Full definition →

Latin arbor
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The story

  1. Latin · derived fromarbor“tree”
  2. English todayarboricity

From Latin arbor (“tree”) + -icity.

Words from the same roots

Latinarbor all →

arborarbourarboriculturearboreousarboriformarborolarborolatry

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