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Where does “adorkableness” come from?

adorkableness (English) comes from English adorkable, from English adorable, from French adorable, from Latin adorabilis, from Latin adōrō, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în — in.

adorkableness (English): The quality of being adorkable

Definitions

  1. The quality of being adorkable

Ancestry of “adorkableness”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishadorkableAdorable in a dorky, socially awkward manner
2EnglishadorableBefitting of being adored; cute or loveable
3Frenchadorableadorable
4Latinadorabilis—
5Latinadōrō—
6Latinad-to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it...
7Latinīn-—
8Latinîn—
9Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
10Proto-Italicenin
11Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin
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