Where does “adagissimo” come from?
adagissimo (English) comes from Italian adagissimo, from Italian adagio, from Italian agio, from Old Occitan aize, from Latin adiacēns, from Latin adiaceo, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn- — in.
adagissimo (English): Very slowly
Ancestry of “adagissimo”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Italian | adagissimo | superlative degree of adagio |
| 2 | Italian | adagio | slowly; adagio; first-person singular present... |
| 3 | Italian | agio | ease, comfort; luxury, comfort; first-person... |
| 4 | Old Occitan | aize | ease |
| 5 | Latin | adiacēns | — |
| 6 | Latin | adiaceo | I lie beside, at, near or next to; am adjacent... |
| 7 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 8 | Latin | īn- | — |
| 9 | Latin | în | — |
| 10 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |