Where does “pianistic” come from?
pianistic (English) comes from English piano, from English pianoforte, from Italian pianoforte, from Italian piano, from Italian -ano, from Latin -ant, from Proto-Italic -āō, from Proto-Indo-European -eh₂yéti — he, she.
pianistic (English): Of or pertaining to piano playing
Definitions
- Of or pertaining to piano playing
Ancestry of “pianistic”, step by step
pianistic traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English piano
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | piano | a percussive keyboard musical instrument, usually... |
| 2 | English | pianoforte | A piano |
| 3 | Italian | pianoforte | piano, pianoforte |
| 4 | Italian | piano | plane; flat, level; plain |
| 5 | Italian | -ano | Used with a stem to form the third-person plural... |
| 6 | Latin | -ant | third-person plural present active indicative of... |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | -āō | Forms primarily denominative verbs |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -eh₂yéti | Creates iterative/ frequentative/ intensive... |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -yéti | Creates intransitive, often deponent,... |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | yé- | — |
| 11 | Chichewa | iye | he, she |
via French pianistique
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | pianistique | pianistic; pianistics |
| 2 | French | pianiste | pianist |
| 3 | Italian | pianista | pianist |
| 4 | Italian | -ista | -ist |
| 5 | Latin | -ista | -ist; one who practises or believes |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | -ιστής | Alternative form of -τής; -ist |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | -τής | Appended to verbs to form agent nouns |
| 8 | Proto-Hellenic | -tās | — |