Where does “verspiedo” come from?
verspiedo (Esperanto) comes from Esperanto piedo, from Italian piede, from Old French perdre, from Latin perdo, from Latin -dō, from Proto-Germanic -dô, from Sicilian di, from Latin dē — afterwards, post; by, at.
verspiedo (Esperanto): metrical foot the basic unit of the underlying rhythm of verse
Definitions
- metrical foot the basic unit of the underlying rhythm of verse
Ancestry of “verspiedo”, step by step
verspiedo traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Esperanto piedo
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Esperanto | piedo | foot |
| 2 | Italian | piede | foot |
| 3 | Old French | perdre | to lose |
| 4 | Latin | perdo | I destroy, ruin, wreck; I waste, squander; I lose... |
| 5 | Latin | -dō | to put |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | -dô | — |
| 7 | Sicilian | di | Used to indicate possession, after the thing owned and before the owner; of; ’s |
| 8 | Latin | dē | of; concerning; about |
| 9 | Latin | post | behind; after, since, besides, except; behind,... |
| 10 | Latin | poste | ablative singular of postis |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | posti | behind, after |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | pósti | after |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | pós | afterwards, post; by, at |
via Esperanto verso
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Esperanto | verso | line of poetry |
| 2 | English | verse | A poetic form with regular meter and a fixed... |
| 3 | Middle English | vers | A line or passage of a text or work; A larger... |
| 4 | Old English | fers | verse; sentence, title |
| 5 | Latin | versus | turned, changed, having been turned; towards,... |
| 6 | Latin | vertō | to turn, turn oneself, direct one's way, to turn about, turn around, revolve |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | wertō | to turn |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | wert- | to turn, to rotate |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | wer- | to burn; to cover, heed, notice; squirrel |