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Where does “affligere” come from?

affligere (Latin) comes 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.

affligere (Latin): second-person singular future passive indicative...

Definitions

  1. second-person singular future passive indicative...

Ancestry of “affligere”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1LatinaffligoI strike, beat, dash ; cast or throw down,...
2Latinad-to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it...
3Latinīn-—
4Latinîn—
5Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
6Proto-Italicenin
7Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin

Words derived from “affligere”

  • affliction
  • afflict
  • afflictive
  • afflicteth
  • afflictest
  • afflicter
  • afflictively
  • afflictionless
  • self-affliction
  • afflictress
  • afflictare
  • afflictio
  • aflicción
  • affliggere
  • affliggimento
  • afflittivo
  • affliger
  • affliction
  • aflição
  • aflikti
  • affliction
  • affliccioun
  • afflictiun
  • afliction
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁én →