Where does “Muratore” come from?
Muratore (English) comes from Italian muratore, from Italian murare, from Italian mura, from Italian muro, from Latin mūrus, from Old Latin moerus, from Proto-Indo-European mēy- — soft, tender, dear.
Ancestry of “Muratore”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | muratore | mason, bricklayer |
| 2 | Italian | murare | to wall up; to embed into a wall |
| 3 | Italian | mura | plural of muro; city walls, battlements;... |
| 4 | Italian | muro | wall; first-person singular present indicative of... |
| 5 | Latin | mūrus | wall, city wall(s), (usually of a city, as opposed to pariēs) |
| 6 | Old Latin | moerus | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | mēy- | soft, tender, dear |