The process went further in England than in France (where the vernacular sometimes resisted the pedantic), resulting in English adjourn, advance, address, advertisement (Modern French ajourner, avancer, adresser, avertissement). Ad nauseam is a Latin term for an argument or other discussion that has continued to the point of nausea.12 For example, this has been discussed ad. Over-correction at the end of the Middle Ages in French and then English "restored" the -d- or a doubled consonant to some words that never had it ( accursed, afford). Ad nauseam refers to something repeated to the point of being annoying (or figuratively inducing nausea), while ad infinitum simply refers to something that is repeated over and over again without stopping. In many cases pronunciation followed the shift. in words it had picked up from Old French. From the Cambridge English Corpus So that a thing will either be at rest or must be moved ad infinitum, unless something more powerful gets in its way. In Old French, reduced to a- in all cases (an evolution already underway in Merovingian Latin), but French refashioned its written forms on the Latin model in 14c., and English did likewise 15c. ad infinitum However, a restriction on the maximum size of a cell is not unrealistic biologically, since in reality cells do not increase in size ad infinitum. In Latin, the term is very similar to ad infinitum (repeated for infinity). Simplified to a- before sc-, sp- and st- modified to ac- before many consonants and then re-spelled af-, ag-, al-, etc., in conformity with the following consonant (as in affection, aggression). Ad nauseam is a Latin phrase, but it has synonyms in both Latin and English. Word-forming element expressing direction toward or in addition to, from Latin ad "to, toward" in space or time "with regard to, in relation to," as a prefix, sometimes merely emphatic, from PIE root *ad- "to, near, at."
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