Where does “banca centrale” come from?

banca centrale (Italian) comes from Italian centrale, from Latin centrālis, from Latin centrum, from Ancient Greek κέντρον, from Proto-Hellenic *kéntron, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱéntrom — pointed tool.

banca centrale (Italian): central bank

Definitions

  1. central bank

Ancestry of “banca centrale”, step by step

banca centrale traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Italian centrale

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italiancentralecentral; main; head office
2Latincentrāliscentral, in the middle
3Latincentrumcenter
4Ancient GreekκέντρονSomething with a sharp point: point, spike, spur;...
5Proto-Hellenic*kéntron—
6Proto-Indo-European*ḱéntrompointed tool

via Italian banca

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italianbancabank; third-person singular present indicative of...
2Proto-Germanicbankôbank, embankment; a hill
Every word from Proto-Indo-European *ḱéntrom →Every word from Proto-Hellenic *kéntron →Every word from Ancient Greek κέντρον →