Where does “contrattempo” come from?
contrattempo (Italian) comes from Italian contra, from Latin contrā, from Latin ubī, from Latin cubī, from Proto-Italic *kʷuðei — where.
contrattempo (Italian): hitch, setback, difficulty; interval; backbeat
Definitions
- hitch, setback, difficulty; interval; backbeat
Ancestry of “contrattempo”, step by step
contrattempo traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Italian contra
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Italian | contra | Obsolete form of contro; third-person singular... |
| 2 | Latin | contrā | against |
| 3 | Latin | ubī | where? in what place?, in which place? |
| 4 | Latin | cubī | — |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | *kʷuðei | where |
via Italian tempo
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Italian | tempo | time; time, age, period; part |
| 2 | Latin | tempus | time, period, age; season; kairos, right time,... |
| 3 | Proto-Indo-European | tempos | stretch |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | temp- | to extend, stretch, span; to stetch, string; to... |
Words derived from “contrattempo”