Where does “adolescent” come from?
adolescent (Catalan) comes from Latin adulēscēns, from Latin adolesco, from Latin adoleō, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en — in.
adolescent (Catalan): adolescent; teenager
Ancestry of “adolescent”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Latin | adulēscēns | — |
| 2 | Latin | adolesco | I grow up, become an adult; I mature; I increase... |
| 3 | Latin | adoleō | — |
| 4 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 5 | Latin | īn- | — |
| 6 | Latin | în | — |
| 7 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |