Where does “tent” come from?
tent (Middle English) comes from Middle English attent, from Old French atente, from Latin attenta, from Latin attendere, from Latin attendo, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în — in.
tent (Middle English): attention
Ancestry of “tent”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Middle English | attent | attention |
| 2 | Old French | atente | attention, intention |
| 3 | Latin | attenta | second-person singular present active imperative... |
| 4 | Latin | attendere | third-person plural perfect active indicative of... |
| 5 | Latin | attendo | I pay attention, attend; I direct or turn toward |
| 6 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 7 | Latin | īn- | — |
| 8 | Latin | în | — |
| 9 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |