Where does “acquiescent” come from?
Acquiescent derives from Latin acquiescens, from Latin acquiesco, composed of Latin ad- and Latin ad, from Proto-Indo-European ád, from Proto-Indo-European h₂éd, from Proto-Indo-European kʷyeh₁-.
acquiescent (English): willing to acquiesce, accept or agree to...
Definitions
- willing to acquiesce, accept or agree to...
Ancestry of “acquiescent”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | acquiēscēns | reposing, resting (hence dying) |
| 2 | Latin | acquiesco | I repose, rest; I die, rest in death; I find... |
| 3 | Latin | Ad | toward, to |
| 4 | Latin | illic | he, she, it, yonder, that, overthere; in that... |
| 5 | Latin | ille | that; those; "; demonstrative pronoun "; that... |
| 6 | Latin | olle | Archaic form of ille |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | *olnos | that |