Where does “improvise” come from?
improvise (French) comes from French improviser, from Italian improvvisare, from Italian improvviso, from Latin improvisus, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en — in.
improvise (French): first-person singular present indicative of...
Definitions
- first-person singular present indicative of...
Ancestry of “improvise”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | French | improviser | to improvise |
| 2 | Italian | improvvisare | to improvise, to extemporize, to make up, to play... |
| 3 | Italian | improvviso | unexpected, sudden, unforeseen, untimely;... |
| 4 | Latin | improvisus | unforeseen, unexpected; sudden |
| 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 |