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Where does “cito” come from?

cito (Italian) comes from Latin citō, from Latin -tō, from Latin -tus, from Proto-Italic -tus, from Proto-Indo-European -tus — Derives action nouns from verb roots.

cito (Italian): soon; at once; first-person singular present of...

Definitions

  1. soon; at once; first-person singular present of...

Ancestry of “cito”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latincitō—
2Latin-tō—
3Latin-tusForms the past participle of verbs; Forms...
4Proto-Italic-tus—
5Proto-Indo-European-tusDerives action nouns from verb roots

Words derived from “cito”

  • microcito
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tus →