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Where does “ammennicolone” come from?

ammennicolone (Italian) comes from Italian ammennicolare, from Latin adminiculō, from Latin adminiculum, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en — in.

ammennicolone (Italian): trickster; timewaster; captious, carping

Definitions

  1. trickster; timewaster; captious, carping

Ancestry of “ammennicolone”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1ItalianammennicolareTo provide excuses for; To daydream, fantasize
2Latinadminiculō—
3Latinadminiculuma prop, stay, support; support, help, aid,...
4Latinad-to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it...
5Latinīn-—
6Latinîn—
7Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
8Proto-Italicenin
9Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁én →