Where does “coronapiste” come from?

coronapiste (French) comes from French piste, from Italian pista, from Italian pesta, from Italian pestare, from Latin pisto, from Latin pīnsō, from Spanish pienso, from Latin pēnsum — to stretch.

coronapiste (French): a temporary bicycle path created to decongest urban areas during the COVID-19 pandemic

Definitions

  1. a temporary bicycle path created to decongest urban areas during the COVID-19 pandemic

Ancestry of “coronapiste”, step by step

coronapiste traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via French piste

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchpistetrack or trail; track; lead, hint
2Italianpistatrack, trail, scent, clue; track, racetrack,...
3Italianpestafootprint; mess, trouble; third-person singular...
4Italianpestareto crush, grind, pound; to trample, step on,...
5Latinpistoto pound
6Latinpīnsōto beat, pound
7Spanishpiensoanimal feed; thought
8Latinpēnsumallotment, portion, weight (of wool measured out to a slave to spin in a day)
9Latinpendōto weigh, weigh out
10Proto-Italicpendōhang, put in a hanging position
11Proto-Indo-European(s)péndeti
12Proto-Indo-European(s)pend-to stretch

via French coronavirus

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchcoronaviruscoronavirus
Every word from Proto-Indo-European (s)pend-