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Where does “empreinte” come from?

empreinte (Old French) comes from Old French empreindre, from Latin imprimere, from Latin imprimo, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en, from Proto-Indo-European h₁én — in.

Ancestry of “empreinte”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchempreindre—
2Latinimprimeresecond-person singular future passive indicative...
3LatinimprimoI press, impress; I print, imprint, stamp
4Latinīn-—
5Latinîn—
6Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
7Proto-Italicenin
8Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin

Words derived from “empreinte”

  • imprint
  • imprinted
  • imprinting
  • nanoimprint
  • imprinter
  • nonimprinted
  • imprintable
  • imprinteth
  • imprintest
  • reimprint
  • microimprinted
  • misimprint
  • bioimprinting
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁én →