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Fixture

3 stages from Latin to English.

Today it means an item of furniture or equipment permanently fixed in place, or a regularly scheduled event
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Stage 1 of 3
figere
Latin · ancient
"to fix, to fasten"
to fix, to fasten, with irregular past participle fixus
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Stage 2 of 3
fix
English · 1400s
"to make something firmly attached"
to make something firmly attached, from figere
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Stage 3 of 3
fixture
English · 1600s
"something permanently attached to a building or place"
formed from fix with the English suffix -ture, for something permanently attached
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