Where does “espressokeitin” come from?
espressokeitin (Finnish) comes from Finnish espresso, from Italian espresso, from Latin expressus, from Latin exprimere, from Latin ex-, from Latin e, from Latin ex, from Latin commūnicō — whale, sea monster; abyss.
espressokeitin (Finnish): espresso machine, espresso maker
Definitions
- espresso machine, espresso maker
Ancestry of “espressokeitin”, step by step
espressokeitin traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish espresso
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | espresso | espresso |
| 2 | Italian | espresso | past participle of esprimere; express; Clipping... |
| 3 | Latin | expressus | squeezed |
| 4 | Latin | exprimere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 5 | Latin | ex- | out, away; throughout; thoroughly |
| 6 | Latin | e | The name of the letter "E"; out of, from |
| 7 | Latin | ex | A name of the letter "X"; out of, from |
| 8 | Latin | commūnicō | to impart, share |
| 9 | Latin | commūnis | common, commonplace, ordinary, general, universal, shared, shared alike, of both sides, belonging to two or more together |
| 10 | Old Latin | com(m)oinis | — |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | kommoinis | common |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱom-moy-ni- | held in common |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 15 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 16 | Russian | кит | whale; genitive plural of ки́та |
| 17 | Old Church Slavonic | китъ | whale |
| 18 | Ancient Greek | κῆτος | whale, sea monster; abyss |