English
fixation
Fixation comes from Old French fixation.
- Old Frenchc. 842–1400fixation
- Englishearliest quotation 1962same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Old Frenchc. 842–1400fixation
- Englishearliest quotation 1962same form
Earliest quotation: 1962, The Victoria Line: “Increasingly it is being realised that a modern conurbation's…”
Equivalent to fix + -ation
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeygʷ- ‘to jab’
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Latin fīxus ‘immovable’
Old French fix ‘fastened’
Old French *fixer
Middle English fixen
English fix
Every English word from Old French fixation
Today it means
noun The act of fixing.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Old French fixation / fixation