Where does “poltrona” come from?
poltrona (Esperanto) comes from Esperanto poltrono, from Ido poltrono, from Ido -o, from Esperanto -o, from Spanish -ó, from Latin Aramaicus, from Ancient Greek Ἀραμαϊκός, from Aramaic ܐܪܡܝܐ.
poltrona (Esperanto): cowardly
Ancestry of “poltrona”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Esperanto | poltrono | coward |
| 2 | Ido | poltrono | coward, poltroon, skulker |
| 3 | Ido | -o | Nominal suffix. All Ido nouns end in -o |
| 4 | Esperanto | -o | Nominal suffix. Most Esperanto nouns end in "-o";... |
| 5 | Spanish | -ó | A suffix indicating the third-person singular... |
| 6 | Latin | Aramaicus | — |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | Ἀραμαϊκός | — |
| 8 | Aramaic | ܐܪܡܝܐ | Aramean; gentile |
| 9 | Aramaic | ארמיא | — |
| 10 | Aramaic | ארם | — |