Where does “abhorrent” come from?

abhorrent (French) comes from French abhorrer, from Middle French abhorrer, from Latin abhorreō, from Latin ab-, from Latin āb, from Proto-Germanic *ab, from Proto-Indo-European apó.

abhorrent (French): third-person plural present indicative of...

Definitions

  1. third-person plural present indicative of...

Ancestry of “abhorrent”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchabhorrerto abominate, to abhor, to loathe
2Middle Frenchabhorrerto abhor
3Latinabhorreōto abhor, shudder at, recoil or shrink back from
4Latinab-from, away, away from; off; at a distance
5Latinābfrom, away from, out of
6Proto-Germanic*ab—
7Proto-Indo-Europeanapó—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European apó →Every word from Proto-Germanic *ab →Every word from Latin āb →