Where does “spagettiwestern” come from?
spagettiwestern (Finnish) comes from English spaghetti western, from English spaghetti, from Italian spaghetti, from Italian spaghetto, from Italian -etto, from English -et, from Middle English -et, from Old French -et — Forms adjectives from nouns, indicating the possession of a thing or a quality.
spagettiwestern (Finnish): spaghetti western
Definitions
- spaghetti western
Ancestry of “spagettiwestern”, step by step
spagettiwestern traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via English spaghetti western
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | spaghetti western | A motion picture depicting a story of cowboys and desperadoes set in the American Old West, but produced by an Italian-based company and filmed in Europe, notably in Italy |
| 2 | English | spaghetti | A type of pasta made in the shape of long thin... |
| 3 | Italian | spaghetti | plural of spaghetto; a dish of spaghetti; fine... |
| 4 | Italian | spaghetto | strand of spaghetti; a dish of spaghetti; fright |
| 5 | Italian | -etto | Alterative suffix used to form melioratives,... |
| 6 | English | -et | Used to form diminutives, loosely construed |
| 7 | Middle English | -et | Forms diminutive nouns from nouns; in some words,... |
| 8 | Old French | -et | Used to form a diminutive, masculine noun;... |
| 9 | Latin | -ātus | ed |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | -ātos | — |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | -éh₂tos | Forms adjectives from nouns, indicating the possession of a thing or a quality |
via Swedish spagetti
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swedish | spagetti | spaghetti |
via Swedish western
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swedish | western | a western (movie) |