Where does “annihiler” come from?
annihiler (French) comes from Latin annihilāre, from Latin nihil, from Latin nihilum, from Latin nē, from Latin gēns, from Proto-Italic *gentis, from Proto-Indo-European ǵénh₁tis, from Proto-Indo-European ǵenh₁- — to produce, to beget, to give birth.
annihiler (French): to annihilate
Definitions
- to annihilate
Ancestry of “annihiler”, step by step
annihiler traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Latin annihilāre
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | annihilāre | — |
| 2 | Latin | nihil | indefinite nothing |
| 3 | Latin | nihilum | nothing; no value |
| 4 | Latin | nē | no; not |
| 5 | Latin | gēns | Roman clan (related by birth or marriage and sharing a common name and often united by certain religious rites) |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | *gentis | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵénh₁tis | birth, production |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵenh₁- | to produce, to beget, to give birth |
via Late Latin annihilo
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Late Latin | annihilo | I reduce to nothing; I bring to nothing,... |
| 2 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 3 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 4 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 5 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |