Where does “adore” come from?
adore (French) comes from French adorer, from Old French adorer, from Latin adōrō, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en — in.
adore (French): first/third-person singular present indicative of...
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Ancestry of “adore”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | adorer | to love, to adore; to worship |
| 2 | Old French | adorer | to praise |
| 3 | Latin | adōrō | to speak to, accost, address; negotiate a matter with |
| 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 |