Where does “arreptitious” come from?
arreptitious (English) comes from Latin arreptīcius, from Latin arreptus, from Latin arripio, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en — in.
arreptitious (English): Possessed; raving; isolated from reality
Definitions
- Possessed; raving; isolated from reality
Ancestry of “arreptitious”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | arreptīcius | arreptitious |
| 2 | Latin | arreptus | seized; procured; arrested |
| 3 | Latin | arripio | I seize or snatch; I procure or appropriate; I... |
| 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 |