Where does “abhorrent” come from?
Abhorrent comes from Latin abhorrens, the present participle of abhorreo, meaning to shrink back in fear, formed from the prefix ab- and a root related to Proto-Indo-European ǵʰr̥s-éh₁-(ye)-ti.
abhorrent (English): Inconsistent with, or far removed from,...
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- Inconsistent with, or far removed from,...
Ancestry of “abhorrent”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Latin | abhorrēns | — |
| 2 | Latin | abhorreō | — |
| 3 | Latin | ab- | from, away, away from; off; at a distance |
| 4 | Latin | āb | — |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | *ab | — |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | apó | — |
Words derived from “abhorrent”