Where does “fiacca” come from?
fiacca (Italian) comes from Italian fiaccare, from Italian -are, from Latin -ō, from Proto-Indo-European -ō — Derives nouns from roots.
fiacca (Italian): tiredness; laziness; sluggishness
Definitions
- tiredness; laziness; sluggishness
Ancestry of “fiacca”, step by step
fiacca traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Italian fiaccare
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | fiaccare | To weary, exhaust or weaken |
| 2 | Italian | -are | Used, with a stem, to form the infinitive of most... |
| 3 | Latin | -ō | suffixed to nouns or adjectives. Originally a-stem nouns. Later extended to nouns with other stems. Forms regular first-conjugation verbs |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | -ō | Derives nouns from roots |