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Where does “aspect” come from?

aspect (Middle English) comes from Latin aspectus, from Latin aspiciō, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en, from Proto-Indo-European h₁én — in.

Ancestry of “aspect”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1LatinaspectusThe act of seeing or looking at something; look,...
2Latinaspiciō—
3Latinad-to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it...
4Latinīn-—
5Latinîn—
6Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
7Proto-Italicenin
8Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁én →