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Where does “espandibile” come from?

espandibile (Italian) comes from Italian espandere, from Latin expandō, from Latin pandō, from Latin pandus, from Latin -us, from Old Latin -os, from Proto-Italic -os, from Proto-Indo-European -ós — Creates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting...

espandibile (Italian): expandable, expansible, collapsible; open-ended

Definitions

  1. expandable, expansible, collapsible; open-ended

Ancestry of “espandibile”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italianespandereto expand; to extend, spread
2Latinexpandō—
3Latinpandō—
4Latinpandusbend, crooked, curved; bent, crooked
5Latin-ussuffix forming adjectives from nouns, verbs,...
6Old Latin-osaccusative masculine plural of -us
7Proto-Italic-os—
8Proto-Indo-European-ósCreates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting...

Words derived from “espandibile”

  • espandibilità
  • espansibilità
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