Where does “adultspeak” come from?
adultspeak (English) comes from English adult, from French adulte, from Latin adultus, from Latin adolesco, from Latin adoleō, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în — in.
adultspeak (English): The style of language used by adults
Definitions
- The style of language used by adults
Ancestry of “adultspeak”, step by step
adultspeak traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English adult
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | adult | A fully grown human or animal; A person who has... |
| 2 | French | adulte | adult |
| 3 | Latin | adultus | magnified or piled up with for sacrifice; burned,... |
| 4 | Latin | adolesco | I grow up, become an adult; I mature; I increase... |
| 5 | Latin | adoleō | to emit an odor, smell |
| 6 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 7 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 8 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 9 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |
via English speak
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | speak | To communicate with one's voice, to say words out... |
| 2 | Middle English | speke | — |
| 3 | Old English | specan | Alternative form of sprecan; to speak |
| 4 | Old English | sprecan | to speak, talk |
| 5 | Proto-West Germanic | *sprekan | to speak |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | sprekaną | to speak, to make a noise |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | spreg- | to make a sound, speak; to make a sound, utter,... |