## Etymology
Formed from dependent plus the adverbial suffix -ly; from Latin dependere ('to hang down, depend'), from de- ('down') plus pendere ('to hang').

## AI Etymology
Dependently has the etymological history Formed from dependent plus the adverbial suffix -ly; from Latin dependere ('to hang down, depend'), from de- ('down') plus pendere ('to hang'). The ancestry passes through Latin dependere and Latin pendere. The prefix de- often marks removal, reversal, or downward motion in Latin formations, helping to explain the word's surface structure; the suffix -ly forms an adverb or adjective from the base, so the English form is shaped by recognizable word formation as well as by its inherited or borrowed base. In present use as an adverb, it means "in a manner reliant on or contingent upon something else", keeping the historical formation close to the word's ordinary semantic work. Related words include depend, dependent, and dependence.

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