Where does “abdication” come from?
abdication (Middle French) comes from Latin abdicatio, from Latin abdico, from Latin ab-, from Latin āb, from Proto-Germanic *ab, from Proto-Indo-European apó.
Ancestry of “abdication”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Latin | abdicatio | a renunciation; action of disowning; abdication |
| 2 | Latin | abdico | I am against, disapprove of, reject, refuse,... |
| 3 | Latin | ab- | from, away, away from; off; at a distance |
| 4 | Latin | āb | — |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | *ab | — |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | apó | — |
Words derived from “abdication”