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- Latin · derived fromadverbium
- French · borrowed fromadverbe
- English todayadverb
Borrowed from French adverbe, from Latin adverbium, from ad- (“to”) + verb(um) (“word, verb”) + -ium, so called because it is used to supplement other words (not specifically verbs). By surface analysis, ad- + verb.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.