Where does “ascension” come from?
ascension (Old French) comes from Latin ascēnsiō, from Latin ascensus, from Latin ascendo, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en — in.
ascension (Old French): ascent
Definitions
- ascent
Ancestry of “ascension”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | ascēnsiō | ascent, ascension |
| 2 | Latin | ascensus | ascended; risen; ascent |
| 3 | Latin | ascendo | I climb up, I go up, I move upwards; I rise,... |
| 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 |