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Where does “accelerare” come from?

accelerare (Italian) comes from Latin accelerō, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en, from Proto-Indo-European h₁én — in.

accelerare (Italian): to accelerate, go faster, speed up; to...

Definitions

  1. to accelerate, go faster, speed up; to...

Ancestry of “accelerare”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinaccelerō—
2Latinad-to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it...
3Latinīn-—
4Latinîn—
5Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
6Proto-Italicenin
7Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin

Words derived from “accelerare”

  • accelerate
  • accelero
  • microacceleratore
  • acceleratore
  • acceleramento
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁én →