Where does “guerrilla” come from?
Guerrilla comes from Spanish guerrilla, a diminutive of Spanish guerra from Latin guerra, ultimately derived from Proto-Indo-European wer- meaning to turn or twist.
guerrilla (English): A soldier in a small independent group, fighting...
Definitions
- A soldier in a small independent group, fighting...
Ancestry of “guerrilla”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Spanish | guerrilla | guerrilla; guerrilla war |
| 2 | Spanish | -illa | Added to feminine nouns to denote a diminutive... |
| 3 | Old Spanish | -iella | A diminutive suffix |
| 4 | Latin | -ella | inflection of -ellus:
## nominative/vocative... |
| 5 | Latin | -ellus | Alternative form of -ulus; "forming masculine... |
| 6 | Latin | -ulus | Used to form a diminutive of a noun, indicating... |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | -olos | — |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | -elos | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -e-lós | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -lós | Forms agent nouns from verbal roots |
Words derived from “guerrilla”