Where does “anverso” come from?
anverso (Spanish) comes from French envers, from Old French envers, from Latin inversus, from Latin inverto, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en — in.
anverso (Spanish): obverse
Definitions
- obverse
Ancestry of “anverso”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | envers | reverse; inverse; back |
| 2 | Old French | envers | — |
| 3 | Latin | inversus | inverted, upset, turned upside down |
| 4 | Latin | inverto | I turn upside-down, over or around, invert,... |
| 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 |