Where does “unaspiringly” come from?
unaspiringly (English) comes from English unaspiring, from English aspiring, from English aspire, from Middle English aspiren, from Old French aspirer, from Latin aspīrō, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn- — in.
unaspiringly (English): Without aspirations
Definitions
- Without aspirations
Ancestry of “unaspiringly”, step by step
unaspiringly traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English unaspiring
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | unaspiring | Lacking ambition; not aspiring to any goal |
| 2 | English | aspiring | Hoping to become; present participle of aspire;... |
| 3 | English | aspire | To have a strong desire or ambition to achieve... |
| 4 | Middle English | aspiren | — |
| 5 | Old French | aspirer | — |
| 6 | Latin | aspīrō | to breathe or blow upon |
| 7 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 8 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 9 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 10 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |