Where does “apparaître” come from?
apparaître (French) comes from Italian apparire, from English appear, from Middle English apperen, from Old French aparoir, from Latin appāreō, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în — in.
apparaître (French): to appear; to spawn
Definitions
- to appear; to spawn
Ancestry of “apparaître”, step by step
apparaître traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Italian apparire
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | apparire | to appear; to seem, to look; to grow |
| 2 | English | appear | To come or be in sight; to be in view; to become... |
| 3 | Middle English | apperen | — |
| 4 | Old French | aparoir | to appear |
| 5 | Latin | appāreō | to appear, be visible, come into sight |
| 6 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 7 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 8 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 9 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |
via Middle French apparoistre
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle French | apparoistre | to appear |
| 2 | Old French | aparoistre | — |
| 3 | Latin | appārēscō | to begin to appear |
| 4 | Latin | -sco | Forms inchoative verbs from existing verbs,... |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | -skō | — |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -sḱéti | Forms durative or iterative imperfective verbs... |