Where does “revere” come from?
Revere comes from French révérer, from Latin revereor, combining the prefix re- with Proto-Italic wre, derived from Proto-Indo-European wer-.
revere (English): to regard someone or something with great awe or...
Definitions
- to regard someone or something with great awe or...
Ancestry of “revere”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | French | révérer | to revere |
| 2 | Middle French | reverer | to revere |
| 3 | Latin | revereri | present active infinitive of revereor |
| 4 | Latin | rĕ- | — |
| 5 | Latin | prōdūcō | — |
| 6 | Latin | prō- | — |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | *pro- | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | pro- | toward, forward |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | por- | to give birth; forward, through; going, passage |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | per- | before, in front; first; to go through |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | pr̥tós | passed , crossed |
Words derived from “revere”