Where does “accordant” come from?
Accordant comes from Middle English acordaunt, meaning agreement or harmony in sound or action.
accordant (English): In agreement; agreeing
Definitions
- In agreement; agreeing
Ancestry of “accordant”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle English | acordaunt | accordant; agreeing |
| 2 | English | accord | Agreement or concurrence of opinion, will, or... |
| 3 | Middle English | accord | — |
| 4 | Old French | acort | agreement; accord |
| 5 | Old French | acorder | to concede; to allow; to agree; to come to an... |
| 6 | Latin | concordare | — |
| 7 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 8 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 9 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 10 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |