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Where does “accroître” come from?

accroître (French) comes from Middle French accroistre, from Old French acroistre, from Latin accrēscō, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en — in.

accroître (French): to increase

Definitions

  1. to increase

Ancestry of “accroître”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Frenchaccroistreto increase; to augment
2Old Frenchacroistreto augment; to increase
3Latinaccrēscō—
4Latinad-to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it...
5Latinīn-—
6Latinîn—
7Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
8Proto-Italicenin
9Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin

Words derived from “accroître”

  • accroissable
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