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Where does “diseaselike” come from?

diseaselike (English) comes from English disease, from Middle English disese, from Anglo-Norman desese, from Old French desaise, from Old French eise, from Latin adiacēns, from Latin adiaceo, from Latin ad- — in.

diseaselike (English): Resembling a disease or some aspect of one

Definitions

  1. Resembling a disease or some aspect of one

Ancestry of “diseaselike”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishdiseaseAn abnormal condition of a human, animal or plant...
2Middle Englishdisese—
3Anglo-Normandesese—
4Old Frenchdesaisedisease; deformity; melancholy
5Old Frencheiseease
6Latinadiacēns—
7LatinadiaceoI lie beside, at, near or next to; am adjacent...
8Latinad-to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it...
9Latinīn-—
10Latinîn—
11Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
12Proto-Italicenin
13Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin
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