Where does “clorofluorocarburo” come from?
clorofluorocarburo (Italian) comes from Italian fluorocarburo, from Italian carburo, from Italian carburare, from Italian -are, from Latin -ō, from Proto-Indo-European -ō — Derives nouns from roots.
clorofluorocarburo (Italian): chlorofluorocarbon
Definitions
- chlorofluorocarbon
Ancestry of “clorofluorocarburo”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | fluorocarburo | fluorocarbon |
| 2 | Italian | carburo | carbide; first-person singular present indicative... |
| 3 | Italian | carburare | To carburize; To fire on all cylinders |
| 4 | Italian | -are | Used, with a stem, to form the infinitive of most... |
| 5 | Latin | -ō | suffixed to nouns or adjectives. Originally a-stem nouns. Later extended to nouns with other stems. Forms regular first-conjugation verbs |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -ō | Derives nouns from roots |