Where does “accumbency” come from?
accumbency (English) comes from English accumb, from Latin accumbō, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en, from Proto-Indo-European h₁én — in.
accumbency (English): The state of being accumbent or reclining
Definitions
- The state of being accumbent or reclining
Ancestry of “accumbency”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | accumb | To recline, as at table |
| 2 | Latin | accumbō | to recline at a meal or dinner, on a Roman lectus |
| 3 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 4 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 5 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 6 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |