English
coherency
Coherency comes from Latin cohaerēns ‘uniting, cohering, adhering’, from cohaereō ‘to cling, cleave or stick (closely) together’, and ultimately from haereō.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEhaereō‘to stick, stick fast’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEcohaereō‘to cling, cleave or stick (closely) together’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEcohaerēns‘uniting, cohering, adhering’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEcohaerentia
- Englishearliest quotation 1603coherency
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEhaereō‘to stick, stick fast’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEcohaereō‘to cling, cleave or stick (closely) together’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEcohaerēns‘uniting, cohering, adhering’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEcohaerentia
- Englishearliest quotation 1603coherency
Earliest quotation: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, The Essayes […]: “even in all things therein created, there must be…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *gʰays- ‘to adhere, to stick, to be fixed’
adherence, hesitantly, adherent, 21 more
through Latin haereō ‘to stick, stick fast’
hesitate, hesitation, hesitant, adhesive, adhere, adhesion, hesitancy, 25 more
through Latin cohaereō ‘to cling, cleave or stick (closely) together’
Today it means
noun The state of being coherent; a coherent relationship.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin haereō / coherency