Where does “attenuate” come from?
attenuate (Italian) comes from Italian attenuato, from Italian attenuare, from Latin attenuo, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en — in.
attenuate (Italian): second-person plural present indicative of...
Definitions
- second-person plural present indicative of...
Ancestry of “attenuate”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | attenuato | attenuated; mitigated; alleviated |
| 2 | Italian | attenuare | to make fainter, to attenuate |
| 3 | Latin | attenuo | I make thin, attenuate, thin, reduce; I make... |
| 4 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 5 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 6 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 7 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |