Where does “ascendancy” come from?
Ascendancy comes from Old French ascendre, from Latin ascendō (to climb), composed of Latin ad- (to) and Latin scandere (to climb), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European h₂éd (to go).
ascendancy (English): The process or period of one's ascent; Supremacy;...
Definitions
- The process or period of one's ascent; Supremacy;...
Ancestry of “ascendancy”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | ascend | To move upward, to fly, to soar; To slope in an... |
| 2 | Middle English | ascenden | — |
| 3 | Old French | ascendre | — |
| 4 | Latin | ascendo | I climb up, I go up, I move upwards; I rise,... |
| 5 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 6 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 7 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 8 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |