Where does “aridocoltura” come from?
aridocoltura (Italian) comes from Italian coltura, from Latin cultūra, from Latin cultus, from Latin colere, from Latin colo, from Latin quelo, from Proto-Italic kʷelō, from Proto-Indo-European kʷéleti — to turn.
aridocoltura (Italian): dryland farming; farming in dry conditions
Definitions
- dryland farming; farming in dry conditions
Ancestry of “aridocoltura”, step by step
aridocoltura traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Italian coltura
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | coltura | cultivation; culture |
| 2 | Latin | cultūra | care, cultivation; agriculture, tillage, husbandry |
| 3 | Latin | cultus | tilled, cultivated, having been cultivated;... |
| 4 | Latin | colere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 5 | Latin | colo | I till, cultivate the land; I inhabit; I protect,... |
| 6 | Latin | quelo | — |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | kʷelō | to inhabit |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷéleti | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷel- | to turn |
via Italian arido
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | arido | dry, arid; barren, infertile, sterile; desolate,... |
| 2 | Latin | āridus | dry, parched, withered, arid |
| 3 | Latin | āreō | to be dry or parched |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | āzēō | I am dry |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂eHseh₁(ye)- | — |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂eHs- | to be/become dry; to burn, to glow; hearth |