Where does “arriviste” come from?
arriviste (Italian) comes from Italian arrivista, from French arriviste, from French arriver, from Middle French arriver, from Old French ariver, from Latin adripo, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn- — in.
arriviste (Italian): plural of arrivista
Ancestry of “arriviste”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Italian | arrivista | social climber; careerist |
| 2 | French | arriviste | arriviste |
| 3 | French | arriver | to arrive; to happen; to be able to, to manage |
| 4 | Middle French | arriver | to arrive |
| 5 | Old French | ariver | to arrive |
| 6 | Latin | adripo | — |
| 7 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 8 | Latin | īn- | — |
| 9 | Latin | în | — |
| 10 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |