Where does “immensively” come from?
immensively (English) comes from English immensive, from English immense, from Middle French immense, from Latin immensus, from Latin in-, from Latin in, from Old Latin en, from Proto-Italic en — in.
Ancestry of “immensively”, step by step
immensively traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English immensive
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | immensive | huge |
| 2 | English | immense | Huge, gigantic, very large; Supremely good;... |
| 3 | Middle French | immense | — |
| 4 | Latin | immensus | immeasurable, boundless, endless, vast, immense |
| 5 | Latin | in- | un-, non-, not; in, within, inside |
| 6 | Latin | in | in, at, on, upon, from; within, while in; into,... |
| 7 | Old Latin | en | in |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |