Where does “crivellare” come from?
crivellare (Italian) comes from Italian crivello, from Late Latin cribellum, from Latin crībrum, from Latin collum, from Latin -is, from Latin -a, from Proto-Italic -ā, from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂.
crivellare (Italian): to riddle, to spray; to drill
Definitions
- to riddle, to spray; to drill
Ancestry of “crivellare”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Italian | crivello | screen, sieve; sluicebox; first-person singular... |
| 2 | Late Latin | cribellum | a small sieve |
| 3 | Latin | crībrum | — |
| 4 | Latin | collum | neck, throat; upper stem of a plant; servitude |
| 5 | Latin | -is | suffixed to the root of nouns in composition,... |
| 6 | Latin | -a | suffixed to the roots of verbs, forms agent... |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | -ā | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -éh₂ | — |
Words derived from “crivellare”