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Where does “adorable” come from?

adorable (Catalan) comes from Latin adorabilis, from Latin adōrō, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en, from Proto-Indo-European h₁én — in.

adorable (Catalan): adorable

Definitions

  1. adorable

Ancestry of “adorable”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinadorabilis—
2Latinadōrō—
3Latinad-to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it...
4Latinīn-—
5Latinîn—
6Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
7Proto-Italicenin
8Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin

Words derived from “adorable”

  • adorablement
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁én →