Etymograph

English

intercurrent

Intercurrent comes from Latin intercurrens ‘running between’.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEintercurrens‘running between’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1659intercurrent

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEintercurrens‘running between’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1659intercurrent

Earliest quotation: 1659, Robert Boyle, New Experiments Physico-Mechanicall: “Intercurrent Ethereal Substance”.

Formed from inter- + current

Proto-Indo-European *h₁én ‘in’

Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér ‘between’

Proto-Italic *n̥ter ‘between’

Latin inter ‘between’

English inter-

Old French corant

Middle English curraunt

English current

Every English word from Latin intercurrens

Today it means

adj Running between or among, in a physical sense; interlayered.

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