Where does “acquiescingly” come from?
acquiescingly (English) comes from English acquiescing, from English acquiesce, from Middle French acquiescer, from Latin acquiesco, from Latin Ad, from Latin illic, from Latin ille, from Latin olle — that.
acquiescingly (English): in an acquiescing manner
Definitions
- in an acquiescing manner
Ancestry of “acquiescingly”, step by step
acquiescingly traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English acquiescing
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | acquiescing | present participle of acquiesce |
| 2 | English | acquiesce | To rest satisfied, or apparently satisfied, or to... |
| 3 | Middle French | acquiescer | — |
| 4 | Latin | acquiesco | I repose, rest; I die, rest in death; I find... |
| 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 |