Where does “attendress” come from?
attendress (English) comes from English attender, from English attend, from Middle English attenden, from Old French atendre, from Latin attendō, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în — in.
attendress (English): A female attendant
Definitions
- A female attendant
Ancestry of “attendress”, step by step
attendress traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English attender
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | attender | An attendee; one who attends a course, meeting,... |
| 2 | English | attend | To intend (something) |
| 3 | Middle English | attenden | to attend |
| 4 | Old French | atendre | to wait |
| 5 | Latin | attendō | to pay attention, attend (to), direct the attention towards |
| 6 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 7 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 8 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 9 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |