What is the Latin root of obtain?

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∙ 14y ago

Updated: 8/20/2019

obtain is from two Latin words: ob = against / on account of and teneo+ to have or to hold. The Latin verb itself has a change in vowel because of the prefix: obtineo, obtinere (2nd conjugation)

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