Where does “allitteration” come from?
allitteration (Swedish) comes from English alliteration, from New Latin allīterātiō, from Latin alliteratus, from Latin allitero, from Latin Ad, from Latin illic, from Latin ille, from Latin olle.
allitteration (Swedish): alliteration
Ancestry of “allitteration”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | alliteration | The repetition of consonant sounds at the... |
| 2 | New Latin | allīterātiō | — |
| 3 | Latin | alliteratus | — |
| 4 | Latin | allitero | — |
| 5 | Latin | Ad | — |
| 6 | Latin | illic | he, she, it, yonder, that, overthere; in that... |
| 7 | Latin | ille | that; those; "; demonstrative pronoun "; that... |
| 8 | Latin | olle | Archaic form of ille |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | *olnos | — |