Where does “preromantic” come from?

preromantic (English) comes from English Romantic, from English -ic, from English image, from French image, from Portuguese imagem, from Spanish imagen, from Italian immagine, from Latin imāginem — in.

preromantic (English): Prior to the Romantic movement

Definitions

  1. Prior to the Romantic movement

Ancestry of “preromantic”, step by step

preromantic traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.

via English Romantic

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishRomanticOf or pertaining to Romance; Of or pertaining to...
2English-icUsed to form adjectives from nouns with the...
3EnglishimageAn optical or other representation of a real...
4Frenchimagepicture, image; frame; first-person singular...
5Portugueseimagemimage; picture; figure; image; image; face
6Spanishimagenimage
7Italianimmagineimage; imago
8Latinimāginem
9Latinim-Alternative form of in-; form of "in"; in
10Latinīn-un-, non-, not
11Latinînin, at, on, upon, from (space)
12Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
13Proto-Italicenin
14Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin

via English pre

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishpreBefore; Precum, Cowper's fluid, pre-ejaculate; To...
2Latinpraebefore; in front; in front of
3Proto-Italicpraibefore; in front of
4Proto-Indo-Europeanpreh₂-before, in front
5Proto-Indo-Europeanper-before, in front; first; to go through
6Proto-Indo-Europeanpr̥tóspassed , crossed

via French préromantique

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchpréromantiquepreromantic
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁én