Etymology

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Today it means: The act of forming into a class or classes; a distribution into groups, as classes, orders, families, etc., according to some common relations or attributes. Full definition →

French classification ← Proto-Italic *θakos ← Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*kelh₁-
  2. Proto-Italic*klāssis
  3. Latinclassi
  4. Frenchclasse
  5. Proto-Indo-European*dʰeh₁-
  6. Proto-Italic*θakos
  7. Frenchclassifier
  8. Frenchclassification
  9. English todayclassification

Borrowed from French classification.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.