Where does “advocatress” come from?
advocatress (English) comes from English advocator, from English advocate, from Old French advocat, from Latin advocātus, from Latin advocō, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în — in.
advocatress (English): A female advocate
Definitions
- A female advocate
Ancestry of “advocatress”, step by step
advocatress traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English advocator
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | advocator | One who advocates; an advocate |
| 2 | English | advocate | Someone whose job is to speak for someone's case... |
| 3 | Old French | advocat | — |
| 4 | Latin | advocātus | One called to aid |
| 5 | Latin | advocō | to call, invite or summon someone to a place, invoke |
| 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 |