Where does “alleviate” come from?
Alleviate comes from Late Latin alleviatus, past participle of Latin alleviare, formed from Latin ad- plus a root from Proto-Indo-European h₁lengʷʰ-.
alleviate (English): To make less severe, as a pain or difficulty
Definitions
- To make less severe, as a pain or difficulty
Ancestry of “alleviate”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | alleviatus | alleviated, lifted up |
| 2 | Latin | allevio | I make light, lighten; I raise up, relieve,... |
| 3 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 4 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 5 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 6 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |