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Where does “adequal” come from?

adequal (English) comes from English ad-, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en, from Proto-Indo-European h₁én — in.

adequal (English): Approximately equal, in the context of...

Definitions

  1. Approximately equal, in the context of...

Ancestry of “adequal”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Englishad-near, at; toward, to, tendency, or addition
2Latinad-to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it...
3Latinīn-—
4Latinîn—
5Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
6Proto-Italicenin
7Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin

Words derived from “adequal”

  • adequality
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁én →