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Where does “atenuar” come from?

atenuar (Spanish) comes from Latin attenuo, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en, from Proto-Indo-European h₁én — in.

atenuar (Spanish): to attenuate; to extenuate

Definitions

  1. to attenuate; to extenuate

Ancestry of “atenuar”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1LatinattenuoI make thin, attenuate, thin, reduce; I make...
2Latinad-to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it...
3Latinīn-—
4Latinîn—
5Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
6Proto-Italicenin
7Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁én →