Where does “incredulously” come from?
Incredulously comes from Latin incredulus, formed from the prefix in- and credulus (believable), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European dʰeh₁- meaning to place or put.
incredulously (English): In an incredulous manner; tending to disbelieve:...
Definitions
- In an incredulous manner; tending to disbelieve:...
Ancestry of “incredulously”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | incredulous | Skeptical, disbelieving, or unable to believe;... |
| 2 | Latin | incredulus | unbelieving, disbelieving, incredulous;... |
| 3 | Latin | crēdulus | that easily believes a thing, easy of belief |
| 4 | Latin | -ulus | Used to form a diminutive of a noun, indicating... |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | -olos | — |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | -elos | Forms desubstantival and deadjectival diminutive nouns |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -e-lós | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -lós | Forms agent nouns from verbal roots |