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Where does “adventitiousness” come from?

adventitiousness (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.

adventitiousness (English): the degree to which a thing is adventitious

Definitions

  1. the degree to which a thing is adventitious

Ancestry of “adventitiousness”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishadventitiousFrom an external source; not innate or inherent,...
2LatinadventitiusAlternative form of adventīcius; extraneous
3Latinadventiciusforeign; strange; unusual, extraordinary;...
4Latinadventusarrival, approach, advent; Advent
5Latinadveniō—
6Latinad-to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it...
7Latinīn-—
8Latinîn—
9Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
10Proto-Italicenin
11Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁én →