Where does “fantoccio” come from?

fantoccio (Italian) comes from Italian fante, from Italian infante, from Latin īnfāntem, from Latin īnfāns, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en — in.

fantoccio (Italian): dummy; puppet; doll

Definitions

  1. dummy; puppet; doll

Ancestry of “fantoccio”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italianfantejack; knave
2Italianinfanteinfant; baby, infant; infanta
3Latinīnfāntem—
4Latinīnfānsspeechless, inarticulate
5Latinīn-un-, non-, not
6Latinînin, at, on, upon, from (space)
7Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
8Proto-Italicenin
9Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin

Words derived from “fantoccio”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁én →