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Where does “acquiter” come from?

acquiter (Old French) comes from Medieval Latin acquitare, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en, from Proto-Indo-European h₁én — in.

Ancestry of “acquiter”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Medieval Latinacquitareto settle a debt
2Latinad-to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it...
3Latinīn-—
4Latinîn—
5Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
6Proto-Italicenin
7Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin

Words derived from “acquiter”

  • acchito
  • acquit
  • acquitter
  • acquittable
  • acquittement
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁én →