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
- 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
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | piste | track or trail; track; lead, hint |
| 2 | Italian | pista | track, trail, scent, clue; track, racetrack,... |
| 3 | Italian | pesta | footprint; mess, trouble; third-person singular... |
| 4 | Italian | pestare | to crush, grind, pound; to trample, step on,... |
| 5 | Latin | pisto | to pound |
| 6 | Latin | pīnsō | to beat, pound |
| 7 | Spanish | pienso | animal feed; thought |
| 8 | Latin | pēnsum | allotment, portion, weight (of wool measured out to a slave to spin in a day) |
| 9 | Latin | pendō | to weigh, weigh out |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | pendō | hang, put in a hanging position |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)péndeti | — |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)pend- | to stretch |
via French coronavirus
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | coronavirus | coronavirus |