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Where does “adulti” come from?

adulti (Esperanto) comes from English adultery, from Old French adultere, from Latin adulterium, from Latin adulter, from Latin adulterō, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în — in.

adulti (Esperanto): to commit adultery

Definitions

  1. to commit adultery

Ancestry of “adulti”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishadulterySexual intercourse by a married person with...
2Old Frenchadultereviolation of conjugal faith
3Latinadulteriumadultery; adulteration, contamination
4Latinadulteradulterous, unchaste; counterfeit, false;...
5Latinadulterō—
6Latinad-to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it...
7Latinīn-—
8Latinîn—
9Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
10Proto-Italicenin
11Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin

Words derived from “adulti”

  • adultulo
  • adultulino
  • adulta
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁én →