Where does “ascendant” come from?
ascendant (French) comes from Old French ascendant, from Latin ascendentem, from Latin ascendo, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en — in.
ascendant (French): present participle of ascendre; ascendant;...
Definitions
- present participle of ascendre; ascendant;...
Ancestry of “ascendant”, step by step
ascendant traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Old French ascendant
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Old French | ascendant | — |
| 2 | Latin | ascendentem | accusative masculine singular of ascendēns;... |
| 3 | Latin | ascendo | I climb up, I go up, I move upwards; I rise,... |
| 4 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 5 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 6 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 7 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |
via Latin ascendere
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | ascendere | present active infinitive of ascendō;... |