Where does “bananicoltore” come from?
bananicoltore (Italian) comes from Italian bananicoltura, from Italian coltura, from Latin cultūra, from Latin cultus, from Latin colere, from Latin colo, from Latin quelo, from Proto-Italic kʷelō — to turn.
bananicoltore (Italian): banana farmer
Ancestry of “bananicoltore”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Italian | bananicoltura | banana farming |
| 2 | Italian | coltura | cultivation; culture |
| 3 | Latin | cultūra | — |
| 4 | Latin | cultus | tilled, cultivated, having been cultivated;... |
| 5 | Latin | colere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 6 | Latin | colo | I till, cultivate the land; I inhabit; I protect,... |
| 7 | Latin | quelo | — |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | kʷelō | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷéleti | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷel- | to turn |