Where does “adorável” come from?
adorável (Portuguese) comes from Latin adorabilis, from Latin adōrō, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en, from Proto-Indo-European h₁én — in.
adorável (Portuguese): adorable, lovely
Definitions
- adorable, lovely
Ancestry of “adorável”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | adorabilis | worthy of adoration |
| 2 | Latin | adōrō | to speak to, accost, address; negotiate a matter with |
| 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 |