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Where does “microaggressor” come from?

microaggressor (English) comes from English aggressor, from Latin aggressor, from Latin aggredior, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en — in.

microaggressor (English): One who engages in acts of microaggression

Definitions

  1. One who engages in acts of microaggression

Ancestry of “microaggressor”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishaggressorThe person or country that first attacks or makes...
2Latinaggressorattacker, assailant, aggressor
3LatinaggrediorI advance or go to or towards, approach; I...
4Latinad-to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it...
5Latinīn-—
6Latinîn—
7Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
8Proto-Italicenin
9Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁én →