Where does “assassinate” come from?
assassinate (Italian) comes from Italian assassinato, from Portuguese Ato, from Latin āctus, from Latin agō, from Proto-Italic agō, from Proto-Indo-European h₂éǵeti, from Proto-Indo-European h₂eǵ- — to drive.
assassinate (Italian): second-person plural present indicative of...
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- second-person plural present indicative of...
Ancestry of “assassinate”, step by step
assassinate traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Italian assassinato
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | assassinato | past participle of assassinare |
| 2 | Portuguese | Ato | act deed |
| 3 | Latin | āctus | made, done, having been done |
| 4 | Latin | agō | to act, to behave |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | agō | drive; push, impel; do, act |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂éǵeti | to be driving |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂eǵ- | to drive |
via Italian assassinare
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | assassinare | to murder, to kill, to assassinate, to massacre |
| 2 | Italian | -are | Used, with a stem, to form the infinitive of most... |
| 3 | Latin | -ō | suffixed to nouns or adjectives. Originally a-stem nouns. Later extended to nouns with other stems. Forms regular first-conjugation verbs |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | -ō | Derives nouns from roots |