Etymology

multisense

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Today it means: Involving more than one of the senses, e.g. both sight and touch. Full definition →

English sense ← Middle English sense ← Old French sens
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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*sent-
  9. Proto-Italic*sentiō
  10. Latinsentiō
  11. Latinsēnsu
  12. Proto-Germanic*sinnaz
  13. Frankish*sinn
  14. Vulgar Latin*sennus
  15. Old Frenchsens
  16. Middle Englishsense
  17. Englishsense
  18. English todaymultisense

From multi- + sense.

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