Where does “accordance” come from?
Accordance derives from English accord plus the French suffix -ance, from Latin -antia (denoting a state or quality), combined with Latin ad (toward) and ultimately Proto-Indo-European ḱḗr (heart).
accordance (English): Agreement; harmony; conformity; compliance; The...
Definitions
- Agreement; harmony; conformity; compliance; The...
Ancestry of “accordance”, step by step
accordance traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English accord
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | accord | Agreement or concurrence of opinion, will, or... |
| 2 | Middle English | accord | — |
| 3 | Old French | acort | agreement; accord |
| 4 | Old French | acorder | to concede; to allow; to agree; to come to an... |
| 5 | Latin | concordare | — |
| 6 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 7 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 8 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 9 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |
via Middle English accordaunce
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle English | accordaunce | accordance |
| 2 | Old French | acordance | — |