Etymology

contrafield

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Today it means: An electric field that produces an effect of deceleration on charges that pass through it Full definition →

English field ← Middle English feld ← Old English feld
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*ḱe?
  2. Proto-Indo-European*ḱóm
  3. Proto-Italic*kom
  4. Proto-Italic*kom-
  5. Proto-Italic*komteros
  6. Proto-Italic*komterād
  7. Latincontrā
  8. Englishcontra-
  9. Proto-Germanic*felþuz
  10. Proto-West Germanic*felþu
  11. Old Englishfeld
  12. Middle Englishfeld
  13. Englishfield
  14. English todaycontrafield

From contra- + field.

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