Where does “como” come from?
como (Galician) comes from Galician comer, from Old Portuguese comer, from Vulgar Latin *comēre, from Latin comedere, from Latin comedo, from Latin edo, from Latin ex, from Latin commūnicō — to bend; curve; arch; vault; to bow, bend, arch,...
como (Galician): how; as; first-person singular present indicative...
Definitions
- how; as; first-person singular present indicative...
Ancestry of “como”, step by step
como traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Galician comer
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Galician | comer | to eat |
| 2 | Old Portuguese | comer | to eat |
| 3 | Vulgar Latin | *comēre | — |
| 4 | Latin | comedere | third-person plural perfect active indicative of... |
| 5 | Latin | comedo | I eat or chew up; I consume or devour; I fret or... |
| 6 | Latin | edo | I eat; I give out, put or bring forth; eject,... |
| 7 | Latin | ex | A name of the letter "X"; out of, from |
| 8 | Latin | commūnicō | to impart, share |
| 9 | Latin | commūnis | common, commonplace, ordinary, general, universal, shared, shared alike, of both sides, belonging to two or more together |
| 10 | Old Latin | com(m)oinis | — |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | kommoinis | common |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱom-moy-ni- | held in common |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 15 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 16 | German | kitt | putty certain kinds of cement used for fixing e.g. window panes |
| 17 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 18 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 19 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |
| 20 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷet- | resin, gum; to say, speak |
| 21 | Proto-Indo-European | gū- | to bend; curve; arch; vault; to bow, bend, arch,... |
via Old Portuguese como
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Old Portuguese | como | how |
| 2 | Latin | comō | to bring together, form, frame, construct, arrange |
| 3 | Latin | quōmodo | in what manner or way?; how? |
| 4 | Latin | quō | whither, whereto, where |
| 5 | Latin | quī | who, that, which, what |
| 6 | Latin | -cumque | Used to derive indefinite adjectives, adverbs and... |
| 7 | Latin | cumque | however, whenever, howsoever, whensoever |
| 8 | Latin | -que | and, a copulative particle affixed to the word it... |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | -kʷe | and; Forms distributives from interrogatives |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -kʷe | and; Forms distributives from interrogatives |