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Ascend

2 stages from Latin to English.

Today it means to rise or climb upward
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Stage 1 of 2
ascendere
Latin · ancient
"to climb up"
to climb up, from ad- (up) and scandere (to climb)
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Stage 2 of 2
ascend
English · 1400s
"to rise or climb upward"
settled as the English word for rising or climbing upward
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