Where does “amplify” come from?
Amplify comes from Middle English amplifiyen, from Old French amplifier, from Latin amplificare, meaning to make large, derived from Latin amplus meaning ample or spacious, from Proto-Indo-European dʰeh₁- meaning to place or put.
amplify (English): To render larger, more extended, or more intense;...
Definitions
- To render larger, more extended, or more intense;...
Ancestry of “amplify”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Middle English | amplifiyen | To amplify, embiggen, or heighten |
| 2 | Old French | amplifier | — |
| 3 | Latin | amplificare | present active infinitive of amplificō;... |
| 4 | Latin | amplifico | I enlarge, extend, increase, amplify, magnify;... |
| 5 | Latin | -fico | Forms factitive, causative, or other verbs from... |
| 6 | Latin | facio | I do; I make, construct, fashion, frame, build,... |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | fakjō | to make |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | *θakjō | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | *dʰh₁k-yé-ti | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | dʰeh₁- | to do, put, place |
Words derived from “amplify”