Where does “autoquarantena” come from?
autoquarantena (Italian) comes from Italian auto, from Italian automobile, from Italian auto-, from Ancient Greek αὐτός, from French mobile, from Latin mōbilis, from Latin -bilis, from Proto-Italic -ðlis — Alternative form of *-trom; instrumental suffix;...
autoquarantena (Italian): self-quarantine
Definitions
- self-quarantine
Ancestry of “autoquarantena”, step by step
autoquarantena traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Italian auto
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | auto | Clipping of automobile: car; auto; An auto... |
| 2 | Italian | automobile | automobile |
| 3 | Italian | auto- | auto-, self-; eigen-; homo- |
| 4 | Ancient Greek | αὐτός | αὐτή f, αὐτό n; "first/second declension";... |
| 5 | French | mobile | mobile; moving; movable |
| 6 | Latin | mōbilis | movable, loose |
| 7 | Latin | -bilis | -ble |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | -ðlis | Forms adjectives from verb stems indicating capacity or worth of being acted on |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -dʰlis | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -dʰlom | Alternative form of *-trom; instrumental suffix;... |
via Italian quarantena
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | quarantena | quarantine; period of forty days |
| 2 | Italian | quarantina | approximately forty; period of forty days |
| 3 | Italian | quaranta | forty |
| 4 | Late Latin | quarranta | — |
| 5 | Latin | quadrāgintā | forty; 40 |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷetwr̥̄ḱomt | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷétwr̥dḱomt | forty |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷetwr̥- | four, fourfold |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷetwóres | four |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷe- | and |