Where does “preadolescență” come from?
preadolescență (Romanian) comes from Romanian adolescență, from French adolescence, from Latin adulescentia, from Latin adulēscēns, from Latin adolesco, from Latin adoleō, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn- — in.
preadolescență (Romanian): preadolescence
Definitions
- preadolescence
Ancestry of “preadolescență”, step by step
preadolescență traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Romanian adolescență
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Romanian | adolescență | adolescence |
| 2 | French | adolescence | adolescence, teenage years, teenagehood |
| 3 | Latin | adulescentia | youth, youthfulness, young manhood |
| 4 | Latin | adulēscēns | young, youthful |
| 5 | Latin | adolesco | I grow up, become an adult; I mature; I increase... |
| 6 | Latin | adoleō | to emit an odor, smell |
| 7 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 8 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 9 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 10 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |