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Where does “accepter” come from?

accepter (Middle French) comes from Old French accepter, from Latin acceptō, from Latin accipiō, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en — in.

accepter (Middle French): to accept

Definitions

  1. to accept

Ancestry of “accepter”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchaccepterto accept
2Latinacceptō—
3Latinaccipiō—
4Latinad-to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it...
5Latinīn-—
6Latinîn—
7Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
8Proto-Italicenin
9Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin

Words derived from “accepter”

  • accepter
  • acceptation
  • acceptera
  • acceptant
  • accepta
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁én →