Etymology

multipartite

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Today it means: Divided into multiple parts Full definition →

English partite ← Latin partītu ← Proto-Italic *partis
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*mel-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*ml̥tós?
  3. Proto-Italic*moltos
  4. Latinmultus
  5. Latinmultī
  6. Middle Englishmulti-
  7. Englishmulti-
  8. Proto-Indo-European*perh₃-
  9. Proto-Indo-European*pérh₃tis?
  10. Proto-Italic*partis
  11. Latinpars
  12. Latinpartiō
  13. Latinpartior
  14. Latinpartītu
  15. Englishpartite
  16. English todaymultipartite

From multi- + partite.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.