Where does “acender” come from?
acender (Portuguese) comes from Old Portuguese acender, from Latin accendere, from Latin accendo, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en — in.
acender (Portuguese): to light; to light up; to catch fire; to turn on
Definitions
- to light; to light up; to catch fire; to turn on
Ancestry of “acender”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Old Portuguese | acender | to light a fire |
| 2 | Latin | accendere | third-person plural perfect active indicative of... |
| 3 | Latin | accendo | I kindle or light; I inflame or arouse |
| 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 |