Where does “accelerate” come from?
accelerate (Italian) comes from Italian accelerare, 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.
accelerate (Italian): feminine plural of accelerato; second-person...
Definitions
- feminine plural of accelerato; second-person...
Ancestry of “accelerate”, step by step
accelerate traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Italian accelerare
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | accelerare | to accelerate, go faster, speed up; to... |
| 2 | Latin | accelerō | to quicken, hasten, speed up, accelerate |
| 3 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 4 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 5 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 6 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |
via Italian accelerato
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | accelerato | quick, rapid; train that stops at every local... |