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Where does “ascendingly” come from?

ascendingly (English) comes from English ascending, from English ascend, from Middle English ascenden, from Old French ascendre, from Latin ascendo, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în — in.

ascendingly (English): In an ascending manner

Definitions

  1. In an ascending manner

Ancestry of “ascendingly”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishascendingPresent participle and gerund of ascend; Ordered...
2EnglishascendTo move upward, to fly, to soar; To slope in an...
3Middle Englishascenden—
4Old Frenchascendre—
5LatinascendoI climb up, I go up, I move upwards; I rise,...
6Latinad-to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it...
7Latinīn-—
8Latinîn—
9Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
10Proto-Italicenin
11Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁én →