Where does “ascendance” come from?
ascendance (French) comes from French ascendant, from Old French ascendant, from Latin ascendentem, from Latin ascendo, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en — in.
ascendance (French): ascent; ancestry
Ancestry of “ascendance”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | French | ascendant | present participle of ascendre; ascendant;... |
| 2 | Old French | ascendant | — |
| 3 | Latin | ascendentem | accusative masculine singular of ascendēns;... |
| 4 | Latin | ascendo | I climb up, I go up, I move upwards; I rise,... |
| 5 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 6 | Latin | īn- | — |
| 7 | Latin | în | — |
| 8 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |