Where does “Piedmontese” come from?
Piedmontese comes from English Piedmont, from Italian piemonte meaning "at the foot of the mountain," from Old French -eis, Latin -ensis, Latin en-, Latin in-, Latin in, and Proto-Indo-European ne.
Piedmontese (English): Of, from, or relating to Piedmont, a region in...
Definitions
- Of, from, or relating to Piedmont, a region in...
Ancestry of “Piedmontese”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | Piedmont | (historiography) Any region that could serve as a basis for national unification, as Piedmont did for the Italian Risorgimento |
| 2 | Italian | piemonte | mountain foot; foot of a mountain |
| 3 | Latin | Pedemontium | — |
| 4 | Latin | pēs | a foot, in its senses as |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | μέτρον | something used to measure: measure, rule, weight;... |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | -τρον | Forms instrument nouns |
| 7 | Proto-Hellenic | -tron | Forms instrument nouns from verb stems |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -trom | Forms nouns denoting a tool or instrument |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -tḗr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |