Where does “accroissable” come from?
accroissable (French) comes from French accroître, from Middle French accroistre, from Old French acroistre, from Latin accrēscō, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en — in.
accroissable (French): increasable
Ancestry of “accroissable”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | French | accroître | to increase |
| 2 | Middle French | accroistre | to increase; to augment |
| 3 | Old French | acroistre | to augment; to increase |
| 4 | Latin | accrēscō | — |
| 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 |