Where does “annex” come from?
Annex comes from French annexe, from Latin annexus, the past participle of annecto meaning to bind to, itself from ad meaning to and a root meaning to bind.
annex (English): An addition, an extension; An appendix to a book...
Definitions
- An addition, an extension; An appendix to a book...
Ancestry of “annex”, step by step
annex traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Middle English annexen
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle English | annexen | — |
| 2 | Old French | annexer | to join |
| 3 | Medieval Latin | annexare | — |
| 4 | Latin | annexō | — |
| 5 | Latin | annectō | — |
| 6 | Latin | Ad | toward, to |
| 7 | Latin | illic | he, she, it, yonder, that, overthere; in that... |
| 8 | Latin | ille | that; those; "; demonstrative pronoun "; that... |
| 9 | Latin | olle | Archaic form of ille |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | *olnos | that |