English
segment
Segment comes from Latin segmentum ‘a piece cut off, a strip, segment of the…’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *sek-.
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*sek-‘to cut’reconstructed
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*sekaō‘to cut’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsecōas secāre‘to cut’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEsegmentum‘a piece cut off, a strip, segment of the earth, a strip of tinsel’
- Englishearliest quotation 1992segment
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*sek-‘to cut’reconstructed
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*sekaō‘to cut’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsecōas secāre‘to cut’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEsegmentum‘a piece cut off, a strip, segment of the earth, a strip of tinsel’
- Englishearliest quotation 1992segment
Earliest quotation: 1992, Rudolf Mathias Schuster, Chicago: “In Lejeuneaceae vegetative branches normally originate from the basiscopic…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *sek- ‘to cut’
saw, design, sign, ship, seal, sack, scarlet, sawyer, sax, shingle, scythe, sich, sigil, desiccation, sedge, sain, desiccant, 59 more
through Proto-Italic *sekaō ‘to cut’
sexuality, homosexual, dissection, 18 more
through Latin secō ‘to cut’
risk, sex, section, sexual, insect, sickle, het, dissect, brassica, seg, 21 more
Today it means
noun A length of some object.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *sek- / segment