Where does “cinquecentista” come from?
cinquecentista (Italian) comes from Italian Cinquecento, from Italian cento, from Latin centum, from Latin folium, from Proto-Italic *foljom, from Proto-Indo-European bʰolh₃yom, from Proto-Indo-European bʰleh₃-, from Proto-Indo-European bʰel-.
cinquecentista (Italian): sixteenth-century poet, writer, historian etc
Definitions
- sixteenth-century poet, writer, historian etc
Ancestry of “cinquecentista”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | Cinquecento | sixteenth century |
| 2 | Italian | cento | hundred |
| 3 | Latin | centum | a hundred; 100 |
| 4 | Latin | folium | a leaf; a petal; a sheet or leaf of paper |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | *foljom | — |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰolh₃yom | leaf |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰleh₃- | bloom, flower |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰel- | to sound; to speak, roar, bark; shiny, white; to... |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰōl- | — |