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Where does “adecvat” come from?

adecvat (Romanian) comes from French adéquat, from Latin adaequatus, from Latin adaequāre, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en — in.

Ancestry of “adecvat”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchadéquatsuitable, appropriate, adequate
2Latinadaequatusequal; adequate
3Latinadaequāre—
4Latinad-to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it...
5Latinīn-—
6Latinîn—
7Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
8Proto-Italicenin
9Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin

Words derived from “adecvat”

  • neadecvat
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁én →