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Where does “abbreviabile” come from?

abbreviabile (Italian) comes from Italian abbreviare, from Latin abbreviō, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en, from Proto-Indo-European h₁én — in.

abbreviabile (Italian): shortenable

Definitions

  1. shortenable

Ancestry of “abbreviabile”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1ItalianabbreviareTo abbreviate or shorten
2Latinabbreviō—
3Latinad-to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it...
4Latinīn-—
5Latinîn—
6Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
7Proto-Italicenin
8Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁én →