Where does “advertisement” come from?
Advertisement comes from Middle French advertissement, a noun derived from the verb advertir, meaning to notify or make aware.
advertisement (English): A commercial solicitation designed to sell some...
Definitions
- A commercial solicitation designed to sell some...
Ancestry of “advertisement”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle French | advertissement | warning; short notice calling for attention;... |
| 2 | Middle French | advertir | to warn |
| 3 | Old French | avertir | to inform; to notify; to notice; to remark |
| 4 | Latin | advertō | to turn to or towards |
| 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 |