Where does “adumbrant” come from?
adumbrant (English) comes from Latin adumbrāns, from Latin adumbro, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en, from Proto-Indo-European h₁én — in.
adumbrant (English): Giving a faint shadow, or slight resemblance;...
Definitions
- Giving a faint shadow, or slight resemblance;...
Ancestry of “adumbrant”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | adumbrāns | shading, overshadowing |
| 2 | Latin | adumbro | I bring a shadow over something, cast a shadow... |
| 3 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 4 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 5 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 6 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |