Where does “atenuare” come from?
atenuare (Romanian) comes from Romanian atenua, from French atténuer, from Latin attenuo, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en — in.
atenuare (Romanian): attenuation
Definitions
- attenuation
Ancestry of “atenuare”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Romanian | atenua | to mitigate |
| 2 | French | atténuer | attenuate, mitigate |
| 3 | Latin | attenuo | I make thin, attenuate, thin, reduce; I make... |
| 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 |