Where does “acelerar” come from?
acelerar (Portuguese) comes from Latin accelerare, from Latin accelero, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en, from Proto-Indo-European h₁én — in.
acelerar (Portuguese): to accelerate
Definitions
- to accelerate
Ancestry of “acelerar”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | accelerare | present active infinitive of accelerō;... |
| 2 | Latin | accelero | I quicken, hasten, speed up, accelerate; I am... |
| 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 |