Where does “Adjoint” come from?
Adjoint (Luxembourgish) comes from French adjoindre, from Middle French adjoindre, from Old French ajoindre, from Latin adiungō, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en — in.
Adjoint (Luxembourgish): adjoint, deputy
Definitions
- adjoint, deputy
Ancestry of “Adjoint”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | adjoindre | to adjoin; to join up |
| 2 | Middle French | adjoindre | — |
| 3 | Old French | ajoindre | — |
| 4 | Latin | adiungō | to add, join, attach, append, annex or bind to (something) |
| 5 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 6 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 7 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 8 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |