Where does “crivellatura” come from?
crivellatura (Italian) comes from Italian crivellare, from Italian crivello, from Late Latin cribellum, from Latin crībrum, from Latin collum, from Latin -is, from Latin -a, from Proto-Italic -ā.
crivellatura (Italian): riddling, jigging
Ancestry of “crivellatura”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Italian | crivellare | to riddle, to spray; to drill |
| 2 | Italian | crivello | screen, sieve; sluicebox; first-person singular... |
| 3 | Late Latin | cribellum | a small sieve |
| 4 | Latin | crībrum | — |
| 5 | Latin | collum | neck, throat; upper stem of a plant; servitude |
| 6 | Latin | -is | suffixed to the root of nouns in composition,... |
| 7 | Latin | -a | suffixed to the roots of verbs, forms agent... |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | -ā | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -éh₂ | — |