Where does “avowedly” come from?
Avowedly derives from English avow, Old English -līċ, Proto-Germanic -līkaz, Latin advoco, Latin ad-, Latin ad, and Proto-Indo-European ád.
avowedly (English): With open acknowledgment, declaration or...
Definitions
- With open acknowledgment, declaration or...
Ancestry of “avowedly”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | avowed | simple past tense and past participle of avow;... |
| 2 | English | avow | To declare openly and boldly, as something... |
| 3 | Middle English | avowen | — |
| 4 | Old French | avouer | — |
| 5 | Latin | advocāre | — |
| 6 | Latin | Ad | toward, to |
| 7 | Latin | illic | he, she, it, yonder, that, overthere; in that... |
| 8 | Latin | ille | that; those; "; demonstrative pronoun "; that... |
| 9 | Latin | olle | Archaic form of ille |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | *olnos | that |