Where does “enumerate” come from?

Enumerate comes from Latin enumeratus, the past participle of Latin enumero, meaning to count out or reckon up.

enumerate (English): To specify each member of a sequence individually...

Definitions

  1. To specify each member of a sequence individually...

Ancestry of “enumerate”, step by step

enumerate traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via French énumérer

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchénumérerto enumerate; count out; go through one by one
2Italianenumerareto enumerate
3Portugueseenumerarto enumerate; to count; to recite
4Latinēnumerōto count out or over
5Latinnumerōto count, enumerate
6Latinnumerusnumber; collection, quantity; rank, position
7Proto-Italicnomezos—
8Proto-Indo-Europeannémesos—

via Latin enumerātus

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinenumerātusenumerated

Words derived from “enumerate”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European némesos →