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Where does “entro” come from?

entro (Galician) comes from Galician entrar, from Old Portuguese entrar, from Latin intrare, from Latin intro, from Latin intra, from Latin interus, from Proto-Indo-European h₁énteros, from Proto-Indo-European -teros — Contrastive or oppositional adjectival suffix.

entro (Galician): first-person singular present indicative of...

Definitions

  1. first-person singular present indicative of...

Ancestry of “entro”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Galicianentrarto enter; first/third-person singular future...
2Old Portugueseentrar—
3Latinintrarepresent active infinitive of intrō; second-person...
4LatinintroI enter, go into, penetrate; within
5Latinintrawithin; inside; during; less than
6Latininterus—
7Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énterosinside, within
8Proto-Indo-European-terosContrastive or oppositional adjectival suffix
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