Where does “adventitiously” come from?
adventitiously (English) comes from English adventitious, from Latin adventitius, from Latin adventicius, from Latin adventus, from Latin adveniō, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în — in.
adventitiously (English): in an adventitious manner; sporadically
Definitions
- in an adventitious manner; sporadically
Ancestry of “adventitiously”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | adventitious | From an external source; not innate or inherent,... |
| 2 | Latin | adventitius | Alternative form of adventīcius; extraneous |
| 3 | Latin | adventicius | foreign; strange; unusual, extraordinary;... |
| 4 | Latin | adventus | arrival, approach, advent; Advent |
| 5 | Latin | adveniō | — |
| 6 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 7 | Latin | īn- | — |
| 8 | Latin | în | — |
| 9 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |