Where does “adjective” come from?

adjective (French) comes from French adjectif, from Latin adiectivus, from Latin adiciō, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en — in.

adjective (French): feminine singular of adjectif

Definitions

feminine singular of adjectif

Ancestry of “adjective”, step by step

Step	Language	Word	Meaning
1	French	adjectif	adjective
2	Latin	adiectivus	Alternative form of adjectīvus; adjective
3	Latin	adiciō	to throw, hurl, cast or fling an object to, towards, or at
4	Latin	ad-	to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it...
5	Latin	īn-	un-, non-, not
6	Latin	în	in, at, on, upon, from (space)
7	Latin	en	lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
8	Proto-Italic	en	in
9	Proto-Indo-European	h₁én	in

Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁én →Every word from Latin īn- →Every word from Latin ad- →