Where does “vedette” come from?
vedette (French) comes from Italian vedetta, from Italian veletta, from Italian velettare, from Italian -are, from Latin -ō, from Proto-Indo-European -ō — Derives nouns from roots.
vedette (French): star; flagship; headword
Definitions
- star; flagship; headword
Ancestry of “vedette”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | vedetta | lookout; patrol ship |
| 2 | Italian | veletta | veil; third-person singular present indicative of... |
| 3 | Italian | velettare | To wear a veil |
| 4 | Italian | -are | Used, with a stem, to form the infinitive of most... |
| 5 | Latin | -ō | suffixed to nouns or adjectives. Originally a-stem nouns. Later extended to nouns with other stems. Forms regular first-conjugation verbs |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -ō | Derives nouns from roots |