Where does “puttanesca” come from?
puttanesca (English) comes from Italian puttanesca, from Italian puttana, from Old French putain, from Vulgar Latin putta, from Latin puta, from Latin puto, from Latin putus, from Proto-Indo-European puHtós — to be clean, pure.
puttanesca (English): A cooking sauce made from tomato flavoured with...
Definitions
- A cooking sauce made from tomato flavoured with...
Ancestry of “puttanesca”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | puttanesca | puttanesca sauce; spaghetti puttanesca; feminine... |
| 2 | Italian | puttana | whore, slut, hooker, harlot, tart; bitch;... |
| 3 | Old French | putain | whore, prostitute, bitch |
| 4 | Vulgar Latin | putta | prostitute |
| 5 | Latin | puta | second-person singular present active imperative... |
| 6 | Latin | puto | I clean, cleanse; I trim, prune, lop; I arrange,... |
| 7 | Latin | putus | pure; a boy |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | puHtós | pure, clean |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | pewH- | to be clean, pure |