Where does “attentisme” come from?
attentisme (English) comes from French attentisme, from French attente, from Old French atente, from Latin attenta, from Latin attendere, from Latin attendo, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn- — in.
attentisme (English): A policy of waiting; a waiting game
Definitions
- A policy of waiting; a waiting game
Ancestry of “attentisme”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | attentisme | attentisme |
| 2 | French | attente | wait; expectation; shoulder strap insignia |
| 3 | Old French | atente | attention, intention |
| 4 | Latin | attenta | second-person singular present active imperative... |
| 5 | Latin | attendere | third-person plural perfect active indicative of... |
| 6 | Latin | attendo | I pay attention, attend; I direct or turn toward |
| 7 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 8 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 9 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 10 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |