Where does “adultere” come from?
adultere (Old French) comes from Latin adulterium, from Latin adulter, from Latin adulterō, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en — in.
adultere (Old French): violation of conjugal faith
Definitions
- violation of conjugal faith
Ancestry of “adultere”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Latin | adulterium | adultery; adulteration, contamination |
| 2 | Latin | adulter | adulterous, unchaste; counterfeit, false;... |
| 3 | Latin | adulterō | — |
| 4 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 5 | Latin | īn- | — |
| 6 | Latin | în | — |
| 7 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |
Words derived from “adultere”