Where does “accessory” come from?
Accessory comes from Middle English accessorie, from Medieval Latin accessorius, from Latin accessus meaning approach or access, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European ád meaning to.
accessory (English): Having a secondary, supplementary or subordinate...
Definitions
- Having a secondary, supplementary or subordinate...
Ancestry of “accessory”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Middle English | accessorie | — |
| 2 | Medieval Latin | accessorius | accessory, supplementary; accessory , accomplice |
| 3 | Latin | accessor | helper, subordinate |
| 4 | Latin | accessus | approached, reached; advanced, attacked;... |
| 5 | Latin | accēdō | — |
| 6 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 7 | Latin | īn- | — |
| 8 | Latin | în | — |
| 9 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |
Words derived from “accessory”