Where does “celebrate” come from?
celebrate (Italian) comes from Italian celebrare, from Latin celebrō, from Latin -ō, from Proto-Indo-European -ō — Derives nouns from roots.
celebrate (Italian): inflection of celebrare: ## second-person plural...
Definitions
- inflection of celebrare: ## second-person plural...
Ancestry of “celebrate”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | celebrare | to celebrate, observe, perform, commemorate; to... |
| 2 | Latin | celebrō | to go to a place or person in large numbers or often; throng, frequent, fill |
| 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 |