Where does “parillin” come from?
parillin (English) comes from English sarsaparillin, from English sarsaparilla, from Spanish zarzaparrilla, from Spanish parrilla, from Spanish -illa, from Old Spanish -iella, from Latin -ella, from Latin -ellus — Forms agent nouns from verbal roots.
parillin (English): sarsaparillin
Ancestry of “parillin”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | sarsaparillin | A glucoside resembling saponin, found in the... |
| 2 | English | sarsaparilla | Any of various tropical American vines of the... |
| 3 | Spanish | zarzaparrilla | sarsaparilla |
| 4 | Spanish | parrilla | grill; grid; small grapevine |
| 5 | Spanish | -illa | Added to feminine nouns to denote a diminutive... |
| 6 | Old Spanish | -iella | A diminutive suffix |
| 7 | Latin | -ella | inflection of -ellus:
## nominative/vocative... |
| 8 | Latin | -ellus | Alternative form of -ulus; "forming masculine... |
| 9 | Latin | -ulus | Used to form a diminutive of a noun, indicating... |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | -olos | — |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | -elos | — |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | -e-lós | — |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | -lós | Forms agent nouns from verbal roots |
Words derived from “parillin”