Where does “entendre” come from?
entendre (Middle French) comes from Old French entendre, from Latin intendere, from Latin intendo, from Latin in-, from Latin in, from Old Latin en, from Proto-Italic en, from Proto-Indo-European h₁én — in.
entendre (Middle French): to hear; to understand
Definitions
- to hear; to understand
Ancestry of “entendre”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Old French | entendre | to hear; to understand |
| 2 | Latin | intendere | third-person plural perfect active indicative of... |
| 3 | Latin | intendo | I stretch out; I strain; I turn my attention to,... |
| 4 | Latin | in- | un-, non-, not; in, within, inside |
| 5 | Latin | in | in, at, on, upon, from; within, while in; into,... |
| 6 | Old Latin | en | in |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |