Where does “assessee” come from?
Assessee comes from English assess, derived from French -é, from Latin assessus, the past participle of assidēre, composed of ad- and sedēre meaning to sit beside.
assessee (English): Something or someone that is assessed
Definitions
- Something or someone that is assessed
Ancestry of “assessee”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | assess | To determine, estimate or judge the value of; to... |
| 2 | Middle English | assessen | to assess |
| 3 | Old French | assesser | — |
| 4 | Medieval Latin | assessare | — |
| 5 | Latin | assessus | seated beside one; a sitting beside someone |
| 6 | Latin | assideō | — |
| 7 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 8 | Latin | īn- | — |
| 9 | Latin | în | — |
| 10 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |