Etymology

incohesion

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Today it means: Failure to cohere or unify. Full definition →

English cohesion ← French cohésion ← Latin cohaesiō
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*né
  2. Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
  3. Proto-Italic*n̥-
  4. Latinin-
  5. Middle Englishin-
  6. Englishin-
  7. Proto-Indo-European*ḱe?
  8. Proto-Indo-European*ḱóm
  9. Proto-Italic*kom
  10. Proto-Italic*kom-
  11. Latincon-
  12. Latinhaereō
  13. Latincohaereō
  14. Latincohaesiō
  15. Frenchcohésion
  16. Englishcohesion
  17. English todayincohesion

From in- + cohesion.

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