Where does “accorciatura” come from?
accorciatura (Italian) comes from Italian accorciare, from Latin adcurtiāre, from Latin curtus, from Proto-Indo-European (s)ḱer- — dung, manure, filth; manure, dung, filth.
accorciatura (Italian): shortening, abridgement
Ancestry of “accorciatura”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Italian | accorciare | to shorten; to abridge; to abbreviate |
| 2 | Latin | adcurtiāre | — |
| 3 | Latin | curtus | shortened, short; mutilated, broken, incomplete |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)ḱer- | dung, manure, filth; manure, dung, filth |