Where does “affronter” come from?
affronter (French) comes from Old French afronter, from Latin affronto, from Italian affrontare, from Vulgar Latin affrontare, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en — in.
affronter (French): to confront, face; to face off, to clash
Definitions
- to confront, face; to face off, to clash
Ancestry of “affronter”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Old French | afronter | to defy; to face; to confront; to slap in the... |
| 2 | Latin | affronto | I strike against; I hit in the face |
| 3 | Italian | affrontare | to face or confront something; to cope with... |
| 4 | Vulgar Latin | affrontare | to hit in the face; to strike against; present... |
| 5 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 6 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 7 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 8 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |