Where does “unadroitness” come from?
unadroitness (English) comes from English adroitness, from English adroit, from French adroit, from French à, from English avie, from French envie, from Latin invidia, from Latin invidus — in.
unadroitness (English): The state or condition of being not adroit
Definitions
- The state or condition of being not adroit
Ancestry of “unadroitness”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | adroitness | skillfulness or ease of ability |
| 2 | English | adroit | Deft, dexterous, or skillful |
| 3 | French | adroit | skilful, apt, skilled |
| 4 | French | à | to; on the, to; at |
| 5 | English | avie | emulously |
| 6 | French | envie | desire, lust, urge; appetite, craving; envy |
| 7 | Latin | invidia | envy, grudge, jealousy, prejudice, spite; an... |
| 8 | Latin | invidus | envious; hostile, inimical |
| 9 | Latin | invideo | I look askance or maliciously at, cast an evil... |
| 10 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 11 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 12 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 13 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |