Where does “appréhensif” come from?
appréhensif (French) comes from French appréhender, from Latin apprehendo, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en, from Proto-Indo-European h₁én — in.
appréhensif (French): apprehensive
Definitions
- apprehensive
Ancestry of “appréhensif”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | appréhender | to apprehend; to dread; to catch, apprehend |
| 2 | Latin | apprehendo | I lay hold upon, grasp, seize, grab, take, take... |
| 3 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 4 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 5 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 6 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |