Etymology

metaemotion

M3E1T1A1E1M3O1T1I1O1N1

Today it means: Feelings (sentiment) about one's feelings (uncountable); a feeling about them (countable). Full definition →

English emotion ← Middle French emotion ← Old French esmovoir
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*me
  2. Proto-Indo-European*meth₂?
  3. Ancient Greekμετᾰ́ (metắ)
  4. Ancient Greekμετᾰ- (metă-)
  5. Englishmeta-
  6. Proto-Indo-European*h₁éǵʰ
  7. Proto-Indo-European*h₁éǵʰs
  8. Proto-Italic*eks
  9. Latinex
  10. Latinex-
  11. Proto-Indo-European*m(y)ewh₁-
  12. Proto-Indo-European*m(y)owh₁éyeti
  13. Proto-Italic*moweō
  14. Latinmoveō
  15. Latinēmoveō
  16. Vulgar Latin*exmovēre
  17. Old Frenchesmovoir
  18. Middle Frenchesmouvoir
  19. Middle Frenchemotion
  20. Englishemotion
  21. English todaymetaemotion

From meta- + emotion.

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