Etymology

nonadept

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Today it means: One who is not an adept, one who has not mastered a particular esoteric discipline. Full definition →

English adept ← French adepte ← Latin adeptu
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*né
  2. Proto-Germanic*ne
  3. Proto-Indo-European*ís?
  4. Proto-Indo-European*h₁óynos
  5. Proto-Germanic*ainaz
  6. Proto-Germanic*nainaz
  7. Proto-West Germanic*nain
  8. Old Englishnān
  9. Middle Englishnon
  10. Old Englishnān
  11. Old Englishnān-
  12. Middle Englishnon-
  13. Englishnon-
  14. Proto-Indo-European*h₂éd
  15. Proto-Italic*ad
  16. Proto-Italic*ad-
  17. Latinad-
  18. Proto-Indo-European[Term?]
  19. Proto-Italic*apjō
  20. Latinapiō
  21. Latinapīscor
  22. Latinadipīscor
  23. Latinadeptu
  24. Frenchadepte
  25. Englishadept
  26. English todaynonadept

From non- + adept.

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