Where does “suspensorio” come from?
suspensorio (Esperanto) comes from Italian sospensorio, from Spanish suspensorio, from Latin suspensum, from Latin suspendere, from Latin pendēre, from Latin pendō, from Proto-Italic pendō, from Proto-Indo-European (s)péndeti — to stretch.
suspensorio (Esperanto): jockstrap
Ancestry of “suspensorio”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Italian | sospensorio | suspensory; jockstrap; athletic supporter |
| 2 | Spanish | suspensorio | jockstrap; suspensory |
| 3 | Latin | suspensum | inflection of suspēnsus:
## accusative masculine... |
| 4 | Latin | suspendere | third-person plural perfect active indicative of... |
| 5 | Latin | pendēre | — |
| 6 | Latin | pendō | — |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | pendō | hang, put in a hanging position |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)péndeti | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)pend- | to stretch |