English

interfilament

Interfilament comes from Latin fīlum ‘thread, string, filament, fiber’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰiH-(s-)lo-.

Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*gʷʰiH-(s-)lo-reconstructed
Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*fī(s)lomreconstructed
Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfīlum‘thread, string, filament, fiber’
Late Latinmodernfīlō
Medieval Latinmodernfīlāmentum
English1500–presentfilament
Englishtodayinterfilament

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

Lineage

Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*gʷʰiH-(s-)lo-reconstructed
Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*fī(s)lomreconstructed
Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfīlum‘thread, string, filament, fiber’
Late Latinmodernfīlō
Medieval Latinmodernfīlāmentum
English1500–presentfilament
Englishtodayinterfilament

A compound of inter- + filament

Proto-Indo-European *h₁én ‘in’

Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér ‘between’

Proto-Italic *n̥ter ‘between’

Latin inter ‘between’

English inter-

Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰiH-(s-)lo-

Proto-Italic *fī(s)lom

Latin fīlum ‘thread’

Late Latin fīlō ‘to spin, draw out in a long line’

Medieval Latin fīlāmentum

English filament

Linked words

through Proto-Italic *fī(s)lom

defile, 41 more

through Latin fīlum ‘thread, string, filament, fiber’

file, annihilation, fillet, nihilism, annihilate, nihilist, nihil, 43 more

through English filament

filamentous, 22 more

Today it means

adj Between filaments (of a polymer etc).

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰiH-(s-)lo- / interfilament

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