Where does “empreinter” come from?
empreinter (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 “empreinter”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Old French | empreindre | — |
| 2 | Latin | imprimere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 3 | Latin | imprimo | I press, impress; I print, imprint, stamp |
| 4 | Latin | īn- | — |
| 5 | Latin | în | — |
| 6 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |
Words derived from “empreinter”