Where does “admirability” come from?
admirability (English) comes from Latin admirabilitas, from Latin admīrābilis, from Latin admīror, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en — in.
admirability (English): That quality which produces admiration or wonder
Definitions
- That quality which produces admiration or wonder
Ancestry of “admirability”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Latin | admirabilitas | admirability, wonderfulness; a quality which... |
| 2 | Latin | admīrābilis | — |
| 3 | Latin | admīror | — |
| 4 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 5 | Latin | īn- | — |
| 6 | Latin | în | — |
| 7 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |