Where does “aggressiveness” come from?
Aggressiveness derives from English aggressive, formed from Latin aggressum (past participle of aggredī, "to approach or attack") combined with the Latin suffix -ivus, tracing ultimately to Proto-Indo-European ád ("to" or "toward").
aggressiveness (English): The state or quality of being aggressive; The...
Definitions
- The state or quality of being aggressive; The...
Ancestry of “aggressiveness”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | aggressive | Characterized by aggression; unjustly attacking;... |
| 2 | English | aggress | Aggression; To set upon; to attack; To commit the... |
| 3 | Latin | aggressus | approached; solicited; attacked |
| 4 | Latin | aggredior | I advance or go to or towards, approach; I... |
| 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 |