Where does “impertinent” come from?
impertinent (Old French) comes from Latin impertinens, from Latin pertinens, from Latin pertineō, from Latin per, from Latin Ad, from Latin illic, from Latin ille, from Latin olle — that.
Ancestry of “impertinent”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | impertinens | not belonging thereto |
| 2 | Latin | pertinens | extending; pertaining |
| 3 | Latin | pertineō | to extend, stretch out, reach, matter |
| 4 | Latin | per | through, by means of; throughout, during |
| 5 | Latin | Ad | toward, to |
| 6 | Latin | illic | he, she, it, yonder, that, overthere; in that... |
| 7 | Latin | ille | that; those; "; demonstrative pronoun "; that... |
| 8 | Latin | olle | Archaic form of ille |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | *olnos | that |