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Where does “Spasso” come from?

Spasso (German) comes from Italian spasso, from Vulgar Latin expassare, from Latin expandō, from Latin pandō, from Latin pandus, from Latin -us, from Old Latin -os, from Proto-Italic -os — Creates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting...

Ancestry of “Spasso”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italianspassofun; leisure; walk
2Vulgar Latinexpassare—
3Latinexpandō—
4Latinpandō—
5Latinpandusbend, crooked, curved; bent, crooked
6Latin-ussuffix forming adjectives from nouns, verbs,...
7Old Latin-osaccusative masculine plural of -us
8Proto-Italic-os—
9Proto-Indo-European-ósCreates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting...

Words derived from “Spasso”

  • Spaßguerilla
  • Spaß
  • spaßig
  • spas
  • špás
  • Spaass
  • spaassen
  • Spaaß
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