Where does “denitrificare” come from?
denitrificare (Italian) comes from Romanian denitrifica, from English denitrifier, from English denitrify, from English -ify, from Middle English -ifien, from Old French -ifier, from Latin -ifico, from Latin -fico — to do, put, place.
denitrificare (Italian): to denitrify
Definitions
- to denitrify
Ancestry of “denitrificare”, step by step
denitrificare traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Romanian denitrifica
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Romanian | denitrifica | to denitrify |
| 2 | English | denitrifier | An organism that engages in denitrification, the... |
| 3 | English | denitrify | To remove nitrogen, often through the breakdown... |
| 4 | English | -ify | To produce verbs meaning "to make" |
| 5 | Middle English | -ifien | — |
| 6 | Old French | -ifier | — |
| 7 | Latin | -ifico | Enlarged form of of -ficō; dative masculine... |
| 8 | Latin | -fico | Forms factitive, causative, or other verbs from... |
| 9 | Latin | facio | I do; I make, construct, fashion, frame, build,... |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | fakjō | to make |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | *θakjō | — |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | *dʰh₁k-yé-ti | — |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | dʰeh₁- | to do, put, place |
via Italian nitrificare
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | nitrificare | to nitrify |