Etymograph

English

idempotency

Idempotency comes from Latin; the Latin form is not named.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEform not named
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1997idempotency

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

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  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEform not named
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1997idempotency

Earliest quotation: 1997, Christopher Alan White: “The electron number constraint unlike the idempotency constraint can…”

Formed from idem ‘same’ + potency ‘power’

Proto-Italic *izdim

Latin idem ‘the same’

Middle English idem

English idem

Latin potēns ‘able, powerful’

Latin potentia

English potency

Today it means

noun Idempotence.

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