English
ATA
AT + attachment
A compound of AT + attachment
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd ‘near, at’
Proto-Germanic *at ‘at’
Proto-West Germanic *at
Old English æt ‘at’
Middle English at
English AT
Medieval Latin staca ‘a stake’
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Old French estachier ‘bind’
Old French atachier ‘to attach’
French attacher ‘to attach’
French attachement
English attachment
Today it means
noun Advanced Technology Attachment; a computer bus technology primarily designed for transfer of data to and from a hard disk. (Renamed PATA when SATA came into existence to more clearly distinguish the two.)
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / ATA