Where does “unite” come from?

Unite comes from Latin unitus, the past participle of Latin unio, derived from the Latin suffix -io attached to Proto-Indo-European óynos, meaning "one."

unite (English): To bring together as one; To come together as...

Definitions

  1. To bring together as one; To come together as...

Ancestry of “unite”, step by step

unite traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Middle English uniten

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Englishunitento annex; to unite
2Latinūnītusunited
3Latinūniōa unity, union
4Latin-iō
5Proto-West Germanic-jōForms agent nouns from verbs
6Proto-Indo-European-yétiCreates intransitive, often deponent,...
7Proto-Indo-Europeanyé-
8Chichewaiyehe, she

via English unity

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishunityOneness; the state or fact of being one undivided...
2Middle Englishunite

Words derived from “unite

Every word from Chichewa iye