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
- loudspeaker
Ancestry of “altofalante”, step by step
altofalante traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Galician falante
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Galician | falante | speaking; speaker |
| 2 | Galician | falar | to speak, to talk; to talk to; to speak to one... |
| 3 | Old Portuguese | falar | — |
| 4 | Latin | fābulor | to chat, converse, talk |
| 5 | Latin | fābula | discourse, narrative |
| 6 | Latin | -ulus | Used to form a diminutive of a noun, indicating... |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | -olos | — |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | -elos | Forms desubstantival and deadjectival diminutive nouns |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -e-lós | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -lós | Forms agent nouns from verbal roots |