Where does “affinité” come from?
affinité (Middle French) comes from Latin affīnitās, from Latin affinis, from Latin Ad, from Latin illic, from Latin ille, from Latin olle, from Proto-Italic *olnos — that.
Ancestry of “affinité”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | affīnitās | relationship or alliance by marriage; kinship |
| 2 | Latin | affinis | neighbouring, allied to, kindred |
| 3 | Latin | Ad | toward, to |
| 4 | Latin | illic | he, she, it, yonder, that, overthere; in that... |
| 5 | Latin | ille | that; those; "; demonstrative pronoun "; that... |
| 6 | Latin | olle | Archaic form of ille |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | *olnos | that |