Where does “Pretendolino” come from?
Pretendolino (English) comes from English pretend, from Anglo-Norman pretendre, from Latin praetendere, from Latin praetendo, from Latin tendo, from Latin tentus, from Latin teneō, from Proto-Italic tenēō — to stretch, to extend.
Pretendolino (English): A British Rail Class 90 train with Mark 3 coaching stock formerly used on services normally operated by Pendolinos
Definitions
- A British Rail Class 90 train with Mark 3 coaching stock formerly used on services normally operated by Pendolinos
Ancestry of “Pretendolino”, step by step
Pretendolino traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English pretend
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | pretend | To claim, to allege, especially when falsely or... |
| 2 | Anglo-Norman | pretendre | to claim |
| 3 | Latin | praetendere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 4 | Latin | praetendo | I stretch forth or forward; I extend; I spread... |
| 5 | Latin | tendo | I stretch, stretch out, distend, extend; I... |
| 6 | Latin | tentus | stretched; stretched out; extended; distended;... |
| 7 | Latin | teneō | to hold, have; to grasp |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | tenēō | to hold |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | ten- | to stretch, to extend |
via English Pendolino
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | Pendolino | Any of a class of tilting trains based on the... |
| 2 | Italian | Pendolino | dowsing rod |
| 3 | Italian | pendolo | first-person singular present indicative of... |
| 4 | Latin | pendulus | hanging, hanging down, pendent, suspended;... |
| 5 | Latin | -ulus | Used to form a diminutive of a noun, indicating... |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | -olos | — |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | -elos | Forms desubstantival and deadjectival diminutive nouns |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -e-lós | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -lós | Forms agent nouns from verbal roots |