Where does “adormecer” come from?
adormecer (Portuguese) comes from Old Portuguese adormecer, from Latin addormiscere, from Latin addormisco, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en — in.
adormecer (Portuguese): to fall asleep; to oversleep; to send somebody to...
Definitions
- to fall asleep; to oversleep; to send somebody to...
Ancestry of “adormecer”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Old Portuguese | adormecer | to fall asleep |
| 2 | Latin | addormiscere | present active infinitive of addormīscō |
| 3 | Latin | addormisco | I fall asleep, go to sleep |
| 4 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 5 | Latin | īn- | — |
| 6 | Latin | în | — |
| 7 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |