Where does “abstinent” come from?

abstinent (Middle English) comes from Old French abstinent, from Latin abstinēns, from Latin abstineō, from Latin ab-, from Latin āb, from Proto-Germanic *ab, from Proto-Indo-European apó.

Ancestry of “abstinent”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchabstinentabstinent
2Latinabstinēnsabstaining
3Latinabstineōto abstain
4Latinab-from, away, away from; off; at a distance
5Latinābfrom, away from, out of
6Proto-Germanic*ab—
7Proto-Indo-Europeanapó—

Words derived from “abstinent”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European apó →Every word from Proto-Germanic *ab →Every word from Latin āb →