Where does “AD” come from?
Ad comes from Old French -age, Latin abante, Latin ab, and Latin -icus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European ád, h₂éd, and -kos.
AD (English): advertisement; advantage; to, toward
Definitions
- advertisement; advantage; to, toward
Ancestry of “AD”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | advantage | Any condition, circumstance, opportunity or... |
| 2 | Middle English | avantage | — |
| 3 | Old French | avantage | advantage; profit; gain |
| 4 | Old French | avant | beforehand; earlier |
| 5 | Latin | ab ante | in front, before |
| 6 | Latin | ante | before, in front, forwards; before; before,... |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | κλίσις | bending, inclination; a lying down; a place for... |
| 8 | Ancient Greek | -σῐς | "suffix forming nouns" |
| 9 | Ancient Greek | -τις | retained after dentals |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -tis | Derives abstract/action nouns from verb roots |