Where does “accidence” come from?
accidence (English) comes from Latin accidentia, from Latin accidere, from Latin accido, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en — in.
accidence (English): The accidents or inflections of words; the...
Definitions
- The accidents or inflections of words; the...
Ancestry of “accidence”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | accidentia | casual event, chance, happenstance; nominative... |
| 2 | Latin | accidere | present active infinitive of accidō; third-person... |
| 3 | Latin | accido | I fall down, upon, at or near; descend; I happen... |
| 4 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 5 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 6 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 7 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |