Where does “appellate” come from?
Appellate comes from Latin appellatus, past participle of appello meaning to address or accost, from ad- meaning toward combined with pel- a Proto-Indo-European root meaning to drive or move.
appellate (English): That can be appealed to, especially of a court...
Definitions
- That can be appealed to, especially of a court...
Ancestry of “appellate”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | appellatus | addressed as, having been addressed as, called by... |
| 2 | Latin | appello | I drive or move to; I land or put ashore; I... |
| 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 |