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Where does “cocciuto” come from?

cocciuto (Italian) comes from Italian -uto, from Latin -utus, from Latin -tus, from Proto-Italic -tus, from Proto-Indo-European -tus — Derives action nouns from verb roots.

cocciuto (Italian): stubborn, pig-headed

Definitions

  1. stubborn, pig-headed

Ancestry of “cocciuto”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italian-utoUsed with a stem to form the past participle of...
2Latin-utus—
3Latin-tusForms the past participle of verbs; Forms...
4Proto-Italic-tus—
5Proto-Indo-European-tusDerives action nouns from verb roots

Words derived from “cocciuto”

  • cocciutamente
  • cocciutaggine
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tus →