Where does “incident” come from?
incident (French) comes from Middle French incident, from Old French incident, from Latin incidens, from Latin incidere, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en — in.
incident (French): incidental; incident
Definitions
- incidental; incident
Ancestry of “incident”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle French | incident | — |
| 2 | Old French | incident | — |
| 3 | Latin | incidens | falling upon; cutting up, hewing open;... |
| 4 | Latin | incidere | present active infinitive of incidō;... |
| 5 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 6 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 7 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |