Where does “tempiosto” come from?
tempiosto (Esperanto) comes from Esperanto tempio, from Italian tempia, from Vulgar Latin *templa, from Latin tempula, from Latin tempora, from Latin tempus, from Proto-Indo-European tempos, from Proto-Indo-European temp- — to extend, stretch, span; to stetch, string; to...
tempiosto (Esperanto): temporal bone
Definitions
- temporal bone
Ancestry of “tempiosto”, step by step
tempiosto traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Esperanto tempio
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Esperanto | tempio | temple |
| 2 | Italian | tempia | temple |
| 3 | Vulgar Latin | *templa | — |
| 4 | Latin | tempula | — |
| 5 | Latin | tempora | nominative plural of tempus; accusative plural of... |
| 6 | Latin | tempus | time, period, age; season; kairos, right time,... |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | tempos | stretch |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | temp- | to extend, stretch, span; to stetch, string; to... |
via Esperanto osto
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Esperanto | osto | bone |
| 2 | Ancient Greek | ὀστέον | bone; bones of the earth = rock; stone of fruit |
| 3 | Ancient Greek | κλάσις | breaking, fracture; bending of the knee joint,... |
| 4 | Ancient Greek | -σῐς | "suffix forming nouns" |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | -τις | retained after dentals |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -tis | Derives abstract/action nouns from verb roots |