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
- appetite; appetite; want; desire; longing
Ancestry of “appetit”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Old French | apetit | appetite |
| 2 | Latin | appetitus | an attack, assault; passionate desire or longing;... |
| 3 | Latin | appetō | to strive for, reach after (something), try to get |
| 4 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 5 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 6 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 7 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |