Where does “adoptief” come from?
adoptief (Dutch) comes from French adoptif, from Latin adoptīvus, from Latin adoptō, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en — in.
adoptief (Dutch): adoptive, by or relating to adoption
Definitions
- adoptive, by or relating to adoption
Ancestry of “adoptief”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | adoptif | adoptive, by or relating to adoption |
| 2 | Latin | adoptīvus | adoptive (by adoption) |
| 3 | Latin | adoptō | to take by choice, choose, select |
| 4 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 5 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 6 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 7 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |