Where does “nonadornment” come from?
nonadornment (English) comes from English adornment, from English adorn, from Middle English adornen, from Latin adōrnō, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en — in.
nonadornment (English): Absence of adornment
Definitions
- Absence of adornment
Ancestry of “nonadornment”, step by step
nonadornment traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English adornment
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | adornment | A decoration; that which adorns; The act of... |
| 2 | English | adorn | To make more beautiful and attractive; to... |
| 3 | Middle English | adornen | — |
| 4 | Latin | adōrnō | to get ready, furnish, equip, provide, fit out |
| 5 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 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 |