Where does “nonimperative” come from?
nonimperative (English) comes from English imperative, from Latin imperātīvus, from Latin imperō, from Latin im-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en — in.
nonimperative (English): Not imperative
Ancestry of “nonimperative”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | English | imperative | Essential; crucial; extremely important; Of, or... |
| 2 | Latin | imperātīvus | — |
| 3 | Latin | imperō | — |
| 4 | Latin | im- | Alternative form of in-; form of "in"; in |
| 5 | Latin | īn- | — |
| 6 | Latin | în | — |
| 7 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |