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
- adversity
Ancestry of “adversitee”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Old French | adversité | adversity |
| 2 | Latin | adversitātem | — |
| 3 | Latin | adversitās | opposition, contrariety |
| 4 | Latin | adversus | set opposite, adverse, having been set against;... |
| 5 | Latin | advertō | to turn to or towards |
| 6 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 7 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 8 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 9 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |