Where does “Ascension” come from?
Ascension (French) comes from Old French ascension, from Latin ascēnsiō, from Latin ascensus, from Latin ascendo, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en — in.
Ancestry of “Ascension”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Old French | ascension | ascent |
| 2 | Latin | ascēnsiō | — |
| 3 | Latin | ascensus | ascended; risen; ascent |
| 4 | Latin | ascendo | I climb up, I go up, I move upwards; I rise,... |
| 5 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 6 | Latin | īn- | — |
| 7 | Latin | în | — |
| 8 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |