Where does “reacquisition” come from?
reacquisition (English) comes from English acquisition, from Old French acquisicion, from Latin acquisītiō, from Latin acquirere, from Latin acquiro, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în — in.
reacquisition (English): A second or subsequent acquisition
Definitions
- A second or subsequent acquisition
Ancestry of “reacquisition”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | acquisition | The act or process of acquiring; The thing... |
| 2 | Old French | acquisicion | — |
| 3 | Latin | acquisītiō | — |
| 4 | Latin | acquirere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 5 | Latin | acquiro | I acquire or obtain; I accrue |
| 6 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 7 | Latin | īn- | — |
| 8 | Latin | în | — |
| 9 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |