Where does “adulterin” come from?
adulterin (Romanian) comes from French adultérin, from Latin adulterinus, from Latin adulter, from Latin adulterō, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en — in.
adulterin (Romanian): adulterine
Definitions
- adulterine
Ancestry of “adulterin”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | adultérin | adulterine, born out of adultery |
| 2 | Latin | adulterinus | adulterous, unchaste; not genuine, false,... |
| 3 | Latin | adulter | adulterous, unchaste; counterfeit, false;... |
| 4 | Latin | adulterō | to commit adultery (with) |
| 5 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 6 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 7 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 8 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |