Where does “accrease” come from?
accrease (English) comes from Middle English acresen, from Old French acreistre, from Latin accrēscō, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en — in.
accrease (English): To increase; An increase
Definitions
- To increase; An increase
Ancestry of “accrease”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle English | acresen | To grow; to increase |
| 2 | Old French | acreistre | Alternative form of acroistre |
| 3 | Latin | accrēscō | to grow, increase |
| 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 |