Where does “congegnazione” come from?
congegnazione (Italian) comes from Italian congegnare, from Italian ingegnare, from Italian ingegno, from Latin ingenium, from Latin gignere, from Latin genere, from Latin genus, from Proto-Italic genos — to produce, to beget, to give birth.
congegnazione (Italian): construction
Ancestry of “congegnazione”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Italian | congegnare | to construct, put together; to devise |
| 2 | Italian | ingegnare | — |
| 3 | Italian | ingegno | intelligence, mind, brains; ingenuity, wits;... |
| 4 | Latin | ingenium | innate or natural quality, natural character;... |
| 5 | Latin | gignere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 6 | Latin | genere | ablative singular of genus; to beget, produce |
| 7 | Latin | genus | birth, origin, lineage, descent; kind, type,... |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | genos | lineage, origin |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵénh₁os | race, lineage |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵenh₁- | to produce, to beget, to give birth |