Where does “nonachievement” come from?
nonachievement (English) comes from English achievement, from Middle French achevement, from Old French achevement, from Old French achever, from Latin accapāre, from Latin Ad, from Latin illic, from Latin ille — that.
nonachievement (English): Something that does not achieve the intended goal
Definitions
- Something that does not achieve the intended goal
Ancestry of “nonachievement”, step by step
nonachievement traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English achievement
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | achievement | The act of achieving or performing; a successful... |
| 2 | Middle French | achevement | — |
| 3 | Old French | achevement | act of finishing, of ending; accomplishment;... |
| 4 | Old French | achever | — |
| 5 | Latin | accapāre | finish |
| 6 | Latin | Ad | toward, to |
| 7 | Latin | illic | he, she, it, yonder, that, overthere; in that... |
| 8 | Latin | ille | that; those; "; demonstrative pronoun "; that... |
| 9 | Latin | olle | Archaic form of ille |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | *olnos | that |