Where does “admire” come from?
admire (French) comes from French admirer, from Middle French admirer, from Latin admīror, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en — in.
admire (French): first-person singular present indicative of...
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Ancestry of “admire”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | admirer | to admire |
| 2 | Middle French | admirer | — |
| 3 | Latin | admīror | To admire or respect |
| 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 |