Where does “achieve” come from?
Achieve comes from Middle English acheven, from Old French achever meaning "to finish," from Vulgar Latin accapare, from Latin ad combined with a root related to Proto-Indo-European kauput- or kapōlo.
achieve (English): To succeed in something, now especially in...
Definitions
- To succeed in something, now especially in...
Ancestry of “achieve”, step by step
achieve traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Middle English acheven
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle English | acheven | — |
| 2 | Anglo-Norman | achever | — |
| 3 | Old French | achever | — |
| 4 | Latin | accapāre | finish |
| 5 | Latin | Ad | toward, to |
| 6 | Latin | illic | he, she, it, yonder, that, overthere; in that... |
| 7 | Latin | ille | that; those; "; demonstrative pronoun "; that... |
| 8 | Latin | olle | Archaic form of ille |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | *olnos | that |
via Middle English achieven
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle English | achieven | — |