Where does “piedmont” come from?
Piedmont comes from Italian piemonte, from Medieval Latin Pedemontium, literally meaning "foot of the mountain," denoting the hilly region at a mountain's base.
piedmont (English): Any region of foothills of a mountain range;...
Definitions
- Any region of foothills of a mountain range;...
Ancestry of “piedmont”, 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... |