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Where does “autoaggressive” come from?

autoaggressive (English) comes from English aggressive, from English aggress, from Latin aggressus, from Latin aggredior, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en — in.

autoaggressive (English): That attacks the organism that produces them

Definitions

  1. That attacks the organism that produces them

Ancestry of “autoaggressive”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishaggressiveCharacterized by aggression; unjustly attacking;...
2EnglishaggressAggression; To set upon; to attack; To commit the...
3Latinaggressusapproached; solicited; attacked
4LatinaggrediorI advance or go to or towards, approach; I...
5Latinad-to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it...
6Latinīn-—
7Latinîn—
8Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
9Proto-Italicenin
10Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁én →