Where does “infrequent” come from?

Infrequent comes from Old French frequenter, Latin frequentāre, and ultimately Proto-Indo-European roots meaning "not" and "to go," expressing the sense of rarely occurring or seldom happening.

infrequent (English): Not frequent; not happening frequently

Definitions

  1. Not frequent; not happening frequently

Ancestry of “infrequent”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Englishin-in, into, towards, within; in, into; Used with...
2Middle Englishin-
3Old Englishin-in, into; on, upon; internal, positioned on the...
4Old Englishinin; Alternative form of inn
5Proto-West Germanic*in
6Proto-Germanicinin; into
7Proto-Indo-Europeanénin

Words derived from “infrequent

Every word from Proto-Indo-European én
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