Etymology

nonadherence

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Today it means: A failure to adhere to something, such as a schedule. Full definition →

English adherence ← Middle French adhérence ← Medieval Latin adhaerentia
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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. Latinhaereō
  19. Latinadhaereō
  20. Latinadhaerēns
  21. Medieval Latinadhaerentia
  22. Middle Frenchadhérence
  23. Englishadherence
  24. English todaynonadherence

From non- + adherence.

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