Where does “accentuate” come from?
Accentuate comes from Medieval Latin accentuatus, past participle of Latin accentuare, derived from Latin accentus, which combines Latin ad- with Latin accentus from Ancient Greek κανθός.
accentuate (English): To pronounce with an accent or vocal stress; To...
Definitions
- To pronounce with an accent or vocal stress; To...
Ancestry of “accentuate”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Medieval Latin | accentuatus | — |
| 2 | Latin | accentuare | — |
| 3 | Latin | accentus | a blast, signal; accent, tone, accentuation;... |
| 4 | Latin | cantus | sung, recited; sounded, blew; chanted |
| 5 | Latin | canere | present active infinitive of canō; second-person... |
| 6 | Latin | caneo | I am white, gray or hoary |
| 7 | Latin | -eo | Forms stative verbs from adjectives; dative... |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | -ēō | Forms stative verbs, indicating a state of being;... |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | -ējō | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -éh₁yeti | Thematicization of the athematic stative verbal... |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | -yeti | Creates transitive imperfective verbs from roots |