Where does “affliggere” come from?
affliggere (Italian) comes from Latin affligere, from Latin affligo, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en, from Proto-Indo-European h₁én — in.
affliggere (Italian): to trouble; to grieve; to pang
Definitions
- to trouble; to grieve; to pang
Ancestry of “affliggere”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | affligere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 2 | Latin | affligo | to strike, beat, dash (against); cast or throw down, prostrate |
| 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 |