Where does “alleviative” come from?
alleviative (English) comes from English alleviate, from Latin alleviatus, from Latin allevio, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en — in.
alleviative (English): That alleviates pain; palliative; That which...
Definitions
- That alleviates pain; palliative; That which...
Ancestry of “alleviative”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | alleviate | To make less severe, as a pain or difficulty |
| 2 | Latin | alleviatus | alleviated, lifted up |
| 3 | Latin | allevio | I make light, lighten; I raise up, relieve,... |
| 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 |