Where does “attenter” come from?
attenter (French) comes from Latin attentare, from Latin attento, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en, from Proto-Indo-European h₁én — in.
attenter (French): to assault
Definitions
- to assault
Ancestry of “attenter”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | attentare | present active infinitive of attentō;... |
| 2 | Latin | attento | I strive after, attempt, try, assay, solicit; I... |
| 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 |