Where does “minestrone” come from?

minestrone (Finnish) comes from Italian minestrone, from Italian minestra, from Latin ministrō, from Latin minister, from Latin minus, from Proto-Italic minos — less.

minestrone (Finnish): type of soup

Definitions

  1. type of soup

Ancestry of “minestrone”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italianminestroneminestrone thick Italian vegetable soup
2Italianminestrasoup; pasta
3Latinministrōto attend, wait upon, serve
4Latinministerattendant, servant, waiter; agent, aide;...
5Latinminusnominative neuter singular of minor; accusative...
6Proto-Italicminosless

Words derived from “minestrone”

Every word from Proto-Italic minos →Every word from Latin minus →Every word from Latin minister →