Where does “scintilla” come from?
scintilla (French) comes from French scintiller, from Latin scintillāre, from Latin scintilla, from Proto-Indo-European ski-nto-, from Proto-Indo-European skey-, from Proto-Indo-European sek- — to cut, cut off, sever.
scintilla (French): third-person singular past historic of scintiller
Definitions
- third-person singular past historic of scintiller
Ancestry of “scintilla”, step by step