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Where does “adorer” come from?

adorer (French) comes from Old French adorer, from Latin adōrō, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en, from Proto-Indo-European h₁én — in.

adorer (French): to love, to adore; to worship

Definitions

  1. to love, to adore; to worship

Ancestry of “adorer”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchadorerto praise
2Latinadōrō—
3Latinad-to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it...
4Latinīn-—
5Latinîn—
6Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
7Proto-Italicenin
8Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin

Words derived from “adorer”

  • adorable
  • adorably
  • adorableness
  • unadorable
  • adorabubble
  • adorable
  • adore
  • adorateur
  • adores
  • adorablement
  • adori
  • adora
  • adore
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁én →