Where does “ascribe” come from?
Ascribe comes from Middle English ascriben, from Old French ascrivre, from Latin ascribo (to write toward), formed from the prefix ad- (toward) and Latin ad, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European ád and h₂éd.
ascribe (English): To attribute a cause or characteristic to someone...
Definitions
- To attribute a cause or characteristic to someone...
Ancestry of “ascribe”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle English | ascriben | — |
| 2 | Old French | ascrivre | inscribe, attribute, impute |
| 3 | Latin | āscrībō | to state in writing, to add in writing |
| 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 |