Where does “accendisigaro” come from?
accendisigaro (Italian) comes from Italian accendere, from Latin accendō, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en, from Proto-Indo-European h₁én — in.
accendisigaro (Italian): cigar lighter; lighter
Definitions
- cigar lighter; lighter
Ancestry of “accendisigaro”, step by step
accendisigaro traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Italian accendere
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | accendere | to light, set alight, ignite, kindle; to turn on;... |
| 2 | Latin | accendō | to kindle or light (a fire) |
| 3 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 4 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 5 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 6 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |
via Italian sigaro
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | sigaro | cigar, cheroot |
| 2 | Spanish | cigarro | cigar; cigarette |
| 3 | Spanish | cigarra | cicada |
| 4 | Vulgar Latin | *cicār(r)a | — |
| 5 | Latin | cicada | cicada, tree-cricket; vocative singular of... |