Where does “adolescent” come from?
adolescent (Latin) comes from Latin adolesco, from Latin adoleō, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en, from Proto-Indo-European h₁én — in.
adolescent (Latin): third-person plural future active indicative of...
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Ancestry of “adolescent”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | adolesco | I grow up, become an adult; I mature; I increase... |
| 2 | Latin | adoleō | to emit an odor, smell |
| 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 |