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Where does “abrégément” come from?

abrégément (French) comes from French abrégé, from French abréger, from Old French abregier, from Latin abbreviō, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en — in.

abrégément (French): abridgedly

Definitions

  1. abridgedly

Ancestry of “abrégément”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FrenchabrégéA summarized synopsis or précis of a longer work;...
2Frenchabrégerto shorten in duration; to shorten or summarize,...
3Old Frenchabregier—
4Latinabbreviō—
5Latinad-to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it...
6Latinīn-—
7Latinîn—
8Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
9Proto-Italicenin
10Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁én →