Where does “adnoun” come from?

adnoun (English) comes from Latin Ad, from Latin illic, from Latin ille, from Latin olle, from Proto-Italic *olnos — that.

adnoun (English): An adjective used as a noun (sensu stricto); an absolute adjective (nominalized adjective)

Definitions

  1. An adjective used as a noun (sensu stricto); an absolute adjective (nominalized adjective)

Ancestry of “adnoun”, step by step

adnoun traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Latin Ad

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1LatinAdtoward, to
2Latinilliche, she, it, yonder, that, overthere; in that...
3Latinillethat; those; "; demonstrative pronoun "; that...
4LatinolleArchaic form of ille
5Proto-Italic*olnosthat

via English noun

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishnounA word that can be used to refer to a person,...
2Middle Englishnounnoun; An appellation
3Anglo-Normannom—

Words derived from “adnoun”

Every word from Proto-Italic *olnos →Every word from Latin olle →Every word from Latin ille →
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