Etymology

bicoherence

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Today it means: A squared normalised form of a bispectrum. Full definition →

English coherence ← Middle French coherence ← Latin cohaerentia
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*dwóh₁
  2. Proto-Indo-European*dwi-
  3. Proto-Italic*dwi-
  4. Latinbi-
  5. Englishbi-
  6. Proto-Indo-European*ḱe?
  7. Proto-Indo-European*ḱóm
  8. Proto-Italic*kom
  9. Proto-Italic*kom-
  10. Latincon-
  11. Latinhaereō
  12. Latincohaereō
  13. Latincohaerēns
  14. Latincohaerentia
  15. Middle Frenchcoherence
  16. Englishcoherence
  17. English todaybicoherence

From bi- + coherence.

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