Where does “recommendableness” come from?
recommendableness (English) comes from English recommendable, from English recommend, from Middle English recommenden, from Old French recommender, from Latin commendare, from Latin commendo, from Latin com-, from Latin con- — resin.
recommendableness (English): The quality or degree of being recommendable
Definitions
- The quality or degree of being recommendable
Ancestry of “recommendableness”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | recommendable | Capable of being recommended |
| 2 | English | recommend | To bestow commendation on; to represent... |
| 3 | Middle English | recommenden | To entrust someone or something to another's... |
| 4 | Old French | recommender | — |
| 5 | Latin | commendare | present active infinitive of commendō;... |
| 6 | Latin | commendo | I commend, entrust to, commit; I recommend |
| 7 | Latin | com- | allomorph of con- |
| 8 | Latin | con- | Used in compounds to indicate a being or bringing... |
| 9 | Latin | cum | with, along with; at; -fold |
| 10 | Old Latin | com | Alternative form of cum |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | kom | with, along, at |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 14 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 15 | German | kitt | — |
| 16 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 17 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 18 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |