Etymology

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Today it means: To be inherent; to be an essential or intrinsic part of; to be fixed or permanently incorporated with something. Full definition →

Latin inhaereō ← Proto-Italic *en- ← Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
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  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₁én
  2. Proto-Italic*en
  3. Proto-Italic*en-
  4. Latinin-
  5. Latinhaereō
  6. Latininhaereō
  7. English todayinhere

Borrowed from Latin inhaerēre (“stick in, stick to, inhere to”), from in (“in”) + haereō (“stick”); see hesitate. Compare adhere, cohere.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.