Where does “affable” come from?
Affable comes from French affable, from Latin affabilis meaning "easy to speak to," derived from Latin affor "to speak to," built from the prefix ad- "to" and Proto-Indo-European ád, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European h₂éd.
affable (English): Receiving others kindly and conversing with them...
Definitions
- Receiving others kindly and conversing with them...
Ancestry of “affable”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | French | affable | affable, amicable, sociable |
| 2 | Latin | affābilis | — |
| 3 | Latin | affor | I speak to, address, accost, implore; I fix the... |
| 4 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 5 | Latin | īn- | — |
| 6 | Latin | în | — |
| 7 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |
Words derived from “affable”