Where does “alleviate” come from?
alleviate (Italian) comes from Italian allevare, from Latin allevō, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en, from Proto-Indo-European h₁én — in.
alleviate (Italian): second-person plural present subjunctive of...
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- second-person plural present subjunctive of...
Ancestry of “alleviate”, step by step
alleviate traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Italian allevare
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | allevare | To breed or rear; To bring up |
| 2 | Latin | allevō | to lift or set up, raise |
| 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 |