Where does “appearance” come from?
Appearance comes from Middle French apparence, from Latin apparentia (a showing forth), derived from Latin appareo (to appear), formed from Latin ad- (to) and pareo (to come forth).
appearance (English): The act of appearing or coming into sight; the...
Definitions
- The act of appearing or coming into sight; the...
Ancestry of “appearance”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle French | apparence | — |
| 2 | Latin | apparentia | an appearance, a becoming visible |
| 3 | Latin | appāreō | to appear, be visible, come into sight |
| 4 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 5 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 6 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 7 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |