Where does “aggressive” come from?
aggressive (English) comes from English aggress, from Latin aggressus, from Latin aggredior, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en — in.
aggressive (English): Characterized by aggression; unjustly attacking;...
Definitions
- Characterized by aggression; unjustly attacking;...
Ancestry of “aggressive”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | aggress | Aggression; To set upon; to attack; To commit the... |
| 2 | Latin | aggressus | approached; solicited; attacked |
| 3 | Latin | aggredior | I advance or go to or towards, approach; I... |
| 4 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 5 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 6 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 7 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |
Words derived from “aggressive”
- aggressively
- aggressiveness
- nonaggressive
- aggressivity
- unaggressive
- overaggressive
- hyperaggressive
- autoaggressive
- nonaggressively
- superaggressive
- overaggressiveness
- unaggressively
- nonaggressiveness
- unaggressiveness
- overaggressively
- aggressivism
- agresif
- microaggressive
- aggressivist
- deaggressivization
- alloaggressive
- antiaggressive
- preaggressive
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