Where does “dissentient” come from?
Dissentient comes from Latin dissentient-, the present participle stem of dissentio meaning to disagree, from Proto-Italic dwizsentjō.
dissentient (English): A dissenter; Dissenting; of a different opinion
Definitions
- A dissenter; Dissenting; of a different opinion
Ancestry of “dissentient”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | dissentiens | dissenting |
| 2 | Latin | dissentio | I dissent, disagree or differ |
| 3 | Latin | sentiō | to feel, to sense, to perceive (with the senses) |
| 4 | Latin | -torium | nominative neuter singular of -tōrius; accusative... |
| 5 | Latin | -tōrius | ory |
| 6 | Latin | -tor | -er |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | -tōr | Forms agent nouns to verb stems |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -tōr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -tor-s | — |