Where does “abduce” come from?

abduce (Italian) comes from Italian abdurre, from Latin abdūcō, from Latin ab-, from Latin āb, from Proto-Germanic *ab, from Proto-Indo-European apó.

abduce (Italian): third-person singular present indicative of...

Definitions

  1. third-person singular present indicative of...

Ancestry of “abduce”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1ItalianabdurreTo abduct
2Latinabdūcō—
3Latinab-from, away, away from; off; at a distance
4Latinābfrom, away from, out of
5Proto-Germanic*ab—
6Proto-Indo-Europeanapó—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European apó →