Where does “appraise” come from?
Appraise comes from French apprendre (to teach or inform), from Latin ad- (to) and a root meaning to grasp or seize.
appraise (English): To determine the value or worth of something,...
Definitions
- To determine the value or worth of something,...
Ancestry of “appraise”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Old French | aprisier | apraise, set a price on |
| 2 | Late Latin | appretiare | present active infinitive of appretiō;... |
| 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 |