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Where does “incarnation” come from?

incarnation (French) comes from Middle French incarnation, from Old French incarnacion, from Ecclesiastical Latin incarnatio, from Latin incarnari, from Latin in-, from Latin in, from Old Latin en, from Proto-Italic en — in.

incarnation (French): embodiment

Definitions

  1. embodiment

Ancestry of “incarnation”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle FrenchincarnationIncarnation. Specifically, the incarnation of God...
2Old Frenchincarnacionincarnation
3Ecclesiastical Latinincarnatioincarnation; the Incarnation
4Latinincarnaripresent passive infinitive of incarnō; be made...
5Latinin-un-, non-, not; in, within, inside
6Latininin, at, on, upon, from; within, while in; into,...
7Old Latinenin
8Proto-Italicenin
9Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin

Words derived from “incarnation”

  • réincarnation
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁én →