Where does “Admire” come from?
Admire comes from Middle French admirer, from Latin admiror meaning to wonder at, composed of Latin ad- and Latin ad combined with a root from Proto-Indo-European ád, h₂éd, and smey-.
Admire (English): To be amazed at; to view with surprise; to marvel...
Definitions
- To be amazed at; to view with surprise; to marvel...
Ancestry of “Admire”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Middle French | admirer | — |
| 2 | Latin | admīror | — |
| 3 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 4 | Latin | īn- | — |
| 5 | Latin | în | — |
| 6 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |
Words derived from “Admire”