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Where does “adversitee” come from?

adversitee (Middle English) comes from Old French adversité, from Latin adversitātem, from Latin adversitās, from Latin adversus, from Latin advertō, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în — in.

adversitee (Middle English): adversity

Definitions

  1. adversity

Ancestry of “adversitee”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchadversitéadversity
2Latinadversitātem—
3Latinadversitās—
4Latinadversusset opposite, adverse, having been set against;...
5Latinadvertō—
6Latinad-to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it...
7Latinīn-—
8Latinîn—
9Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
10Proto-Italicenin
11Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁én →