Where does “affability” come from?
Affability derives from French affable, from Latin affābilis meaning "easy to speak to," ultimately from Proto-Indo-European roots meaning "to eat" or "consume."
affability (English): The state or quality of being affable, friendly,...
Definitions
- The state or quality of being affable, friendly,...
Ancestry of “affability”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | affable | Receiving others kindly and conversing with them... |
| 2 | French | affable | affable, amicable, sociable |
| 3 | Latin | affābilis | — |
| 4 | Latin | affor | I speak to, address, accost, implore; I fix the... |
| 5 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 6 | Latin | īn- | — |
| 7 | Latin | în | — |
| 8 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |