Where does “sentinella” come from?

sentinella (Catalan) comes from Italian sentinella, from Italian sentire, from Latin sentiō, from Latin -torium, from Latin -tōrius, from Latin -tor, from Proto-Italic -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tōr.

sentinella (Catalan): sentry, watch

Definitions

  1. sentry, watch

Ancestry of “sentinella”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italiansentinellasentry, guard
2Italiansentireto feel; to hear; to smell
3Latinsentiōto feel, to sense, to perceive (with the senses)
4Latin-toriumnominative neuter singular of -tōrius; accusative...
5Latin-tōriusory
6Latin-tor-er
7Proto-Italic-tōrForms agent nouns to verb stems
8Proto-Indo-European-tōrDerives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone...
9Proto-Indo-European-tor-s
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s
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