Where does “inélégance” come from?
inélégance (French) comes from French élégance, from Latin elegantia, from Latin ēlegāns, from Latin ēligere, from Latin ēligō, from Latin legō, from Latin lēx, from Proto-Italic lēg- — to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to...
inélégance (French): inelegance; clumsiness
Ancestry of “inélégance”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | French | élégance | elegance |
| 2 | Latin | elegantia | elegance, taste, propriety, refinement, grace;... |
| 3 | Latin | ēlegāns | — |
| 4 | Latin | ēligere | — |
| 5 | Latin | ēligō | — |
| 6 | Latin | legō | — |
| 7 | Latin | lēx | — |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | lēg- | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | leǵ-s | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | leǵ- | to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to... |