Where does “invective” come from?
Invective comes from Middle French invective, from Latin invectiva, derived from the Latin adjective invectivus, meaning "abusive," from invectus, past participle of inveho, meaning "to carry in."
invective (English): An expression which inveighs or rails against a...
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- An expression which inveighs or rails against a...
Ancestry of “invective”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle French | invective | — |
| 2 | Medieval Latin | invectiva | — |
| 3 | Latin | invectīvus | reviling |
| 4 | Latin | invectus | carried into |
| 5 | Latin | invehō | to carry, bear, convey into, introduce, bring in, bring upon |
| 6 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 7 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 8 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |