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
- the degree to which a thing is adventitious
Ancestry of “adventitiousness”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | to come to, to arrive |
| 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 |