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Where does “appetit” come from?

appetit (Middle French) comes from Old French apetit, from Latin appetitus, from Latin appetō, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en — in.

appetit (Middle French): appetite; appetite; want; desire; longing

Definitions

  1. appetite; appetite; want; desire; longing

Ancestry of “appetit”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchapetitappetite
2Latinappetitusan attack, assault; passionate desire or longing;...
3Latinappetō—
4Latinad-to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it...
5Latinīn-—
6Latinîn—
7Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
8Proto-Italicenin
9Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁én →