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

  1. To be amazed at; to view with surprise; to marvel...

Ancestry of “admire”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Frenchadmirer—
2LatinadmīrorTo admire or respect
3Latinad-to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it...
4Latinīn-un-, non-, not
5Latinînin, at, on, upon, from (space)
6Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
7Proto-Italicenin
8Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁én →Every word from Latin īn- →Every word from Latin ad- →