Where does “identify” come from?

Identify comes from French identifier, from Latin facio meaning "to make," ultimately from Proto-Indo-European dʰeh₁- meaning "to place or put."

identify (English): To establish the identity of someone or...

Definitions

  1. To establish the identity of someone or...

Ancestry of “identify”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchidentifierto identify; to log in
2Medieval Latinidenticusthe same, identical
3Latinidemthe same
4Proto-Italicizdim—

Words derived from “identify”

Every word from Proto-Italic izdim →Every word from Latin idem →Every word from Medieval Latin identicus →