Where does “nonadroit” come from?
nonadroit (English) comes from English adroit, from French adroit, from French à, from English avie, from French envie, from Latin invidia, from Latin invidus, from Latin invideo — in.
nonadroit (English): Not adroit; clumsy; maladroit
Definitions
- Not adroit; clumsy; maladroit
Ancestry of “nonadroit”, step by step
nonadroit traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English adroit
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | adroit | Deft, dexterous, or skillful |
| 2 | French | adroit | skilful, apt, skilled |
| 3 | French | à | to; on the, to; at |
| 4 | English | avie | emulously |
| 5 | French | envie | desire, lust, urge; appetite, craving; envy |
| 6 | Latin | invidia | envy, grudge, jealousy, prejudice, spite; an... |
| 7 | Latin | invidus | envious; hostile, inimical |
| 8 | Latin | invideo | I look askance or maliciously at, cast an evil... |
| 9 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 10 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 11 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 12 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |