Where does “presentiment” come from?

Presentiment comes from French pressentiment, from Middle French pressentiment and the suffix -ment (Old French -ment, Latin -mentum), ultimately from Latin mens meaning mind, derived from Proto-Indo-European méntis and men-.

presentiment (English): A premonition; a feeling that something, often of...

Definitions

  1. A premonition; a feeling that something, often of...

Ancestry of “presentiment”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchpressentimentpresentiment; hunch; premonition
2Middle Frenchpressentimentpresentiment; hunch; premonition
3Middle Frenchpressentir—

Words derived from “presentiment”

Every word from Middle French pressentir →Every word from Middle French pressentiment →Every word from French pressentiment →