Where does “asignatura” come from?
asignatura (Tagalog) comes from Spanish asignatura, from Spanish asignar, from Latin assignō, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en — in.
asignatura (Tagalog): subject
Definitions
- subject
Ancestry of “asignatura”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spanish | asignatura | class, subject particular area of study |
| 2 | Spanish | asignar | to assign |
| 3 | Latin | assignō | to appoint to, assign, distribute, allot, allocate |
| 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 |