Etymology

self-adhesive

Today it means: adhesive Full definition →

English adhesive ← French adhésif ← Medieval Latin adhaesivu
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*swé?
  2. Proto-Indo-European*selbʰ-
  3. Proto-Germanic*selbaz
  4. Old Englishself
  5. Old Englishself-
  6. Middle Englishself-
  7. Englishself-
  8. Proto-Indo-European*h₂éd
  9. Proto-Italic*ad
  10. Proto-Italic*ad-
  11. Latinad-
  12. Latinhaereō
  13. Latinadhaereō
  14. Medieval Latinadhaesivu
  15. Frenchadhésif
  16. Englishadhesive
  17. English todayself-adhesive

From self- + adhesive.

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