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Where does “altofalante” come from?

altofalante (Galician) comes from Galician falante, from Galician falar, from Old Portuguese falar, from Latin fābulor, from Latin fābula, from Latin -ulus, from Proto-Italic -olos, from Proto-Italic -elos — Forms agent nouns from verbal roots.

altofalante (Galician): loudspeaker

Definitions

  1. loudspeaker

Ancestry of “altofalante”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Galicianfalantespeaking; speaker
2Galicianfalarto speak, to talk; to talk to; to speak to one...
3Old Portuguesefalar—
4Latinfābulor—
5Latinfābula—
6Latin-ulusUsed to form a diminutive of a noun, indicating...
7Proto-Italic-olos—
8Proto-Italic-elos—
9Proto-Indo-European-e-lós—
10Proto-Indo-European-lósForms agent nouns from verbal roots
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