Where does “atentare” come from?
atentare (Romanian) comes from Romanian atenta, from French attenter, from Latin attentare, from Latin attento, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en — in.
atentare (Romanian): assault
Definitions
- assault
Ancestry of “atentare”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Romanian | atenta | to assault |
| 2 | French | attenter | to assault |
| 3 | Latin | attentare | present active infinitive of attentō;... |
| 4 | Latin | attento | I strive after, attempt, try, assay, solicit; I... |
| 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 |