Where does “sentimental” come from?
Sentimental comes from English sentiment, derived from Latin sentimentum, which traces to Proto-Italic sentimentom, ultimately from the root meaning "to feel or perceive."
sentimental (English): Characterized by sentiment, sentimentality or...
Definitions
- Characterized by sentiment, sentimentality or...
Ancestry of “sentimental”, step by step
sentimental traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English sentiment
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | sentiment | A general thought, feeling, or sense; Feelings,... |
| 2 | Old French | sentement | — |
| 3 | Latin | sentimentum | feeling, opinion, sentiment |
| 4 | Latin | sentiō | to feel, to sense, to perceive (with the senses) |
| 5 | Latin | -torium | nominative neuter singular of -tōrius; accusative... |
| 6 | Latin | -tōrius | ory |
| 7 | Latin | -tor | -er |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | -tōr | Forms agent nouns to verb stems |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -tōr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -tor-s | — |
via Old French sentiment
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Old French | sentiment | — |
| 2 | Medieval Latin | sentimentum | feeling, opinion, sentiment |
| 3 | Proto-Italic | sentimentom | — |
Words derived from “sentimental”
- sentimentality
- sentimentalism
- sentimentalist
- sentimentally
- unsentimental
- senti
- sentimentalize
- unsentimentally
- sentimentalization
- antisentimental
- oversentimental
- sentimentalisation
- unsentimentality
- nonsentimental
- sentimentalizer
- oversentimentality
- sentimentalistic
- ultrasentimental
- sentimental
- szentimentális
- sentimental
- sentimental
- सेंटी
- sentymentalny