Where does “impératif” come from?
impératif (French) comes from Old French imperatif, from Latin imperātīvus, from Latin imperō, from Latin im-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en — in.
impératif (French): imperative
Ancestry of “impératif”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Old French | imperatif | imperative |
| 2 | Latin | imperātīvus | — |
| 3 | Latin | imperō | — |
| 4 | Latin | im- | Alternative form of in-; form of "in"; in |
| 5 | Latin | īn- | — |
| 6 | Latin | în | — |
| 7 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |
Words derived from “impératif”