Where does “adventitious” come from?
Adventitious comes from Latin adventicius, derived from advenio (to arrive), formed from the prefix ad- and the root gʷem- (to go or come).
adventitious (English): From an external source; not innate or inherent,...
Definitions
- From an external source; not innate or inherent,...
Ancestry of “adventitious”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | adventitius | Alternative form of adventīcius; extraneous |
| 2 | Latin | adventicius | foreign; strange; unusual, extraordinary;... |
| 3 | Latin | adventus | arrival, approach, advent; Advent |
| 4 | Latin | adveniō | to come to, to arrive |
| 5 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 6 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 7 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 8 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |