Where does “assignat” come from?
assignat (French) comes from French assigner, from Old French assigner, from Latin assignō, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en — in.
assignat (French): assignat
Definitions
- assignat
Ancestry of “assignat”, step by step
assignat traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via French assigner
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | assigner | to assign |
| 2 | Old French | assigner | to assign |
| 3 | Latin | assignō | to appoint to, assign, distribute, allot, allocate |
| 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 assignāre
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | assignāre | — |