Where does “adversité” come from?
adversité (French) comes from Middle French adversité, from Old French adversité, from Latin adversitātem, from Latin adversitās, from Latin adversus, from Latin advertō, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn- — in.
adversité (French): adversity
Definitions
- adversity
Ancestry of “adversité”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle French | adversité | adversity |
| 2 | Old French | adversité | adversity |
| 3 | Latin | adversitātem | — |
| 4 | Latin | adversitās | opposition, contrariety |
| 5 | Latin | adversus | set opposite, adverse, having been set against;... |
| 6 | Latin | advertō | to turn to or towards |
| 7 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 8 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 9 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 10 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |