Where does “inaugural” come from?
Inaugural comes from French inaugural, derived from French inaugurer, from Latin augurare meaning to consecrate by augury, with the prefix in- from Latin in and the root from Proto-Indo-European h₁én.
inaugural (English): Of inauguration; as in a speech or lecture by the...
Definitions
- Of inauguration; as in a speech or lecture by the...
Ancestry of “inaugural”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | inaugural | inaugural |
| 2 | French | inaugurer | to inaugurate |
| 3 | Latin | inaugurō | to divine, practice augury, take omens from the flight of birds |
| 4 | Latin | auguro | I predict, foretell, forebode; I conjecture,... |
| 5 | Latin | augur | augur (priest, diviner, or soothsayer, one who foretold the future in part by interpreting the song and flight of birds) |
| 6 | Latvian | augos | locative plural form of augs; locative plural... |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂ewg- | to increase, to enlarge |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂weg- | to increase, to enlarge |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂ug- | — |