Where does “attent” come from?
attent (Middle English) comes from Old French atente, from Latin attenta, from Latin attendere, from Latin attendo, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en — in.
attent (Middle English): attention
Definitions
- attention
Ancestry of “attent”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Old French | atente | attention, intention |
| 2 | Latin | attenta | second-person singular present active imperative... |
| 3 | Latin | attendere | third-person plural perfect active indicative of... |
| 4 | Latin | attendo | I pay attention, attend; I direct or turn toward |
| 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 |