Where does “acquisition” come from?
Acquisition comes from Old French acquisicion, from Latin acquisitio, the noun form of acquirere meaning to acquire or attain, from the prefix ad- joined to a root ultimately derived from Proto-Indo-European ád.
acquisition (English): The act or process of acquiring; The thing...
Definitions
- The act or process of acquiring; The thing...
Ancestry of “acquisition”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Old French | acquisicion | — |
| 2 | Latin | acquisītiō | acquisition |
| 3 | Latin | acquirere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 4 | Latin | acquiro | I acquire or obtain; I accrue |
| 5 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 6 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 7 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 8 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |