Where does “avowedness” come from?
avowedness (English) comes from English avowed, from English avow, from Middle English avowen, from Old French avouer, from Latin advocāre, from Latin Ad, from Latin illic, from Latin ille — that.
avowedness (English): The state or quality of being avowed
Definitions
- The state or quality of being avowed
Ancestry of “avowedness”, 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 |