Where does “acquiescement” come from?
acquiescement (French) comes from French acquiescer, from Latin acquiesco, from Latin Ad, from Latin illic, from Latin ille, from Latin olle, from Proto-Italic *olnos — that.
acquiescement (French): agreement, acquiescence
Definitions
- agreement, acquiescence
Ancestry of “acquiescement”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | acquiescer | to acquiesce |
| 2 | Latin | acquiesco | I repose, rest; I die, rest in death; I find... |
| 3 | Latin | Ad | toward, to |
| 4 | Latin | illic | he, she, it, yonder, that, overthere; in that... |
| 5 | Latin | ille | that; those; "; demonstrative pronoun "; that... |
| 6 | Latin | olle | Archaic form of ille |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | *olnos | that |