Where does “detrimentally” come from?
detrimentally (English) comes from English detrimental, from Latin detrimental, from Latin detrimentum, from Latin dēterō, from Latin dē-, from Latin dē, from Latin post, from Latin poste — afterwards, post; by, at.
detrimentally (English): In a detrimental manner
Ancestry of “detrimentally”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | detrimental | Causing damage or harm |
| 2 | Latin | detrimental | — |
| 3 | Latin | detrimentum | harm, loss, damage; defeat; detriment |
| 4 | Latin | dēterō | — |
| 5 | Latin | dē- | — |
| 6 | Latin | dē | — |
| 7 | Latin | post | behind; after, since, besides, except; behind,... |
| 8 | Latin | poste | ablative singular of postis |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | posti | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | pósti | — |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | pós | afterwards, post; by, at |