Where does “arginare” come from?
arginare (Italian) comes from Italian argine, from Vulgar Latin arger, from Latin agger, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en — in.
arginare (Italian): to embank; to check, limit
Definitions
- to embank; to check, limit
Ancestry of “arginare”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | argine | bank; embankment, dyke |
| 2 | Vulgar Latin | arger | — |
| 3 | Latin | agger | rampart, bulwark; causeway, pier, dam, dyke |
| 4 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 5 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 6 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 7 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |