Where does “kapitoag usa” come from?
kapitoag usa (Cebuano) comes from Cebuano kapitoan, from Cebuano pito, from Spanish pito, from Spanish pico, from Old Spanish bico, from Latin beccus, from Latin -āceus, from Latin -āx — Creates adjectives from noun or verb stems.
kapitoag usa (Cebuano): seventy-one
Definitions
- seventy-one
Ancestry of “kapitoag usa”, step by step
kapitoag usa traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Cebuano kapitoan
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cebuano | kapitoan | seventy |
| 2 | Cebuano | pito | seven; 7; a whistle; the sound of a whistle |
| 3 | Spanish | pito | whistle; fife; catcall |
| 4 | Spanish | pico | beak; sharp point; pick, pickaxe |
| 5 | Old Spanish | bico | — |
| 6 | Latin | beccus | beak, bill |
| 7 | Latin | -āceus | aceous; resembling, having the nature of, forming, belonging to |
| 8 | Latin | -āx | ish, -y |
| 9 | Latin | -ium | Suffix used to form abstract nouns, sometimes... |
| 10 | Latin | -ius | forming adjectives from nouns; nominative neuter... |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | -jōs | Forms comparative adjectives |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | -yós | Creates adjectives from noun or verb stems |