Where does “ingratiate” come from?

Ingratiate comes from Italian ingraziare, from Italian ingratiare, from Italian in gratia, from Latin in gratiam, from Latin gratus meaning "pleasing or agreeable," ultimately from Proto-Indo-European gʷerH-.

ingratiate (English): To bring oneself into favour with someone by...

Definitions

  1. To bring oneself into favour with someone by...

Ancestry of “ingratiate”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1ItalianingraziareTo ingratiate oneself with; to get on someone's...
2Italianin-un-; in-; a-
3Latinīn-un-, non-, not
4Latinînin, at, on, upon, from (space)
5Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
6Proto-Italicenin
7Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin

Words derived from “ingratiate”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁én →Every word from Latin īn- →Every word from Proto-Italic en →