Where does “resentful” come from?
Resentful derives from English resent and the suffix -ful, ultimately from Latin re- meaning "again" and Proto-Indo-European wer- meaning "to turn."
resentful (English): Inclined to resent, who tends to harbor...
Definitions
- Inclined to resent, who tends to harbor...
Ancestry of “resentful”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | English | resent | To feel resentment over; to consider as an... |
| 2 | Middle French | ressentir | — |
| 3 | Old French | resentir | to smell |
| 4 | Old French | re- | re- |
| 5 | Latin | rĕ- | — |
| 6 | Latin | prōdūcō | — |
| 7 | Latin | prō- | — |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | *pro- | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | pro- | toward, forward |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | por- | to give birth; forward, through; going, passage |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | per- | before, in front; first; to go through |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | pr̥tós | passed , crossed |
Words derived from “resentful”