Where does “astringent” come from?
astringent (Romanian) comes from French astringent, from Latin astringens, from Latin aspīrō, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en — in.
astringent (Romanian): astringent
Definitions
- astringent
Ancestry of “astringent”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | astringent | astringent |
| 2 | Latin | astringens | tightening, contracting; restraining;... |
| 3 | Latin | aspīrō | to breathe or blow upon |
| 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 |