Where does “alito” come from?

alito (Italian) comes from Latin hālitus, from Latin -tus, from Proto-Italic -tus, from Proto-Indo-European -tus — Derives action nouns from verb roots.

alito (Italian): breath; first-person singular present indicative...

Definitions

  1. breath; first-person singular present indicative...

Ancestry of “alito”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinhālitusbreath, exhalation
2Latin-tusForms the past participle of verbs; Forms...
3Proto-Italic-tus—
4Proto-Indo-European-tusDerives action nouns from verb roots

Words derived from “alito”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tus →Every word from Latin -tus →Every word from Latin hālitus →