Where does “adoption” come from?
Adoption comes from French adoption, derived from Latin adoptio, meaning the legal process of taking someone into one's family.
adoption (English): The act of adopting; The state of being adopted;...
Definitions
- The act of adopting; The state of being adopted;...
Ancestry of “adoption”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | adoption | adoption |
| 2 | Latin | adoptio | adoption |
| 3 | Latin | adoptō | to take by choice, choose, select |
| 4 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 5 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 6 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 7 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |