Etymology

capacitance

C3A1P3A1C3I1T1A1N1C3E1

Today it means: The property of an electric circuit or its element that permits it to store charge, defined as the ratio of stored charge to potential over that element or circuit (Q/V); SI unit: farad (F). Full definition →

English capacity ← Middle English capacite ← Old French capacite
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*kap-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*kapyéti
  3. Proto-Italic*kapjō
  4. Latincapiō
  5. Latincapāx
  6. Latincapācitās
  7. Old Frenchcapacite
  8. Middle Englishcapacite
  9. Englishcapacity
  10. English todaycapacitance

From capacity + -ance.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.