Where does “cenotafio” come from?

cenotafio (Italian) comes from Ancient Greek τάφος, from Ancient Greek -ός, from Proto-Hellenic *-os, from Proto-Indo-European -ós — Creates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting...

cenotafio (Italian): cenotaph

Definitions

  1. cenotaph

Ancestry of “cenotafio”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Ancient Greekτάφοςfuneral rites, burial, funeral, wake; tomb,...
2Ancient Greek-όςForms agentive or patientive adjectives and nouns from the o-grade of a verbal root
3Proto-Hellenic*-os
4Proto-Indo-European-ósCreates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting...
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -ósEvery word from Ancient Greek -όςEvery word from Ancient Greek τάφος
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