Where does “au-delà” come from?

au-delà (French) comes from French à, from English avie, from French envie, from Latin invidia, from Latin invidus, from Latin invideo, from Latin īn-, from Latin în — in.

au-delà (French): beyond

Definitions

  1. beyond

Ancestry of “au-delà”, step by step

au-delà traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via French à

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchàto; on the, to; at
2Englishavieemulously
3Frenchenviedesire, lust, urge; appetite, craving; envy
4Latininvidiaenvy, grudge, jealousy, prejudice, spite; an...
5Latininvidusenvious; hostile, inimical
6LatininvideoI look askance or maliciously at, cast an evil...
7Latinīn-un-, non-, not
8Latinînin, at, on, upon, from (space)
9Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
10Proto-Italicenin
11Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin

via French

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchbreadth, width; strip, length
2Frenchmoinemonk
3Middle Frenchmoinemonk
4Old Frenchmoniemonk
5Latinmonicussporadically attested in early Christian inscriptions from Gaul
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁énEvery word from Latin īn-Every word from Proto-Italic en