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Where does “allumina” come from?

allumina (Italian) comes from Italian alluminare, from Old French enluminer, from Latin illūminō, from Latin lūminō, from Latin lūmen, from English -escence, from Latin -escens, from Latin -esco — Creates transitive imperfective verbs from roots.

allumina (Italian): alumina; third-person singular present of...

Definitions

  1. alumina; third-person singular present of...

Ancestry of “allumina”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italianalluminareto add gold or silver to pigments in order to...
2Old Frenchenluminerto brighten, light up; to give colour to; to...
3Latinillūminō—
4Latinlūminō—
5Latinlūmen—
6English-escencea specified process or state
7Latin-escens—
8Latin-escoForms verbs from adjectives meaning "become "
9Latin-eoForms stative verbs from adjectives; dative...
10Proto-Italic-ēōForms stative verbs, indicating a state of being;...
11Proto-Italic-ējō—
12Proto-Indo-European-éh₁yetiThematicization of the athematic stative verbal...
13Proto-Indo-European-yetiCreates transitive imperfective verbs from roots

Words derived from “allumina”

  • alluminoso
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