Where does “aprendre” come from?
aprendre (Old French) comes from Latin apprendere, from Latin apprehendere, from Latin prehendō, from Proto-Italic *praiɣendō, from Proto-Italic prai-, from Proto-Indo-European preh₂-, from Proto-Indo-European per-, from Proto-Indo-European pr̥tós — passed , crossed.
aprendre (Old French): to learn; to teach; to educate
Definitions
- to learn; to teach; to educate
Ancestry of “aprendre”, step by step
aprendre traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Latin apprendere
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | apprendere | third-person plural perfect active indicative of... |
| 2 | Latin | apprehendere | third-person plural perfect active indicative of... |
| 3 | Latin | prehendō | to lay hold of, seize, grasp, grab, snatch, take, catch |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | *praiɣendō | — |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | prai- | pre-, before |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | preh₂- | before, in front |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | per- | before, in front; first; to go through |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | pr̥tós | passed , crossed |
via Late Latin apprendo
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Late Latin | apprendo | Alternative form of apprehendō |
| 2 | Latin | apprehendo | I lay hold upon, grasp, seize, grab, take, take... |
| 3 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 4 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 5 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 6 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |