Where does “adequality” come from?
adequality (English) comes from English adequal, 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.
adequality (English): The quality of being adequal
Definitions
- The quality of being adequal
Ancestry of “adequality”, step by step
adequality traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English adequal
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | adequal | Approximately equal, in the context of... |
| 2 | English | ad- | near, at; toward, to, tendency, or addition |
| 3 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 4 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 5 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 6 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |