Where does “fracassare” come from?

fracassare (Italian) comes from Latin infra, from Latin īnferā, from French inférer, from Latin īnferō, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en — in.

fracassare (Italian): To smash or shatter

Definitions

To smash or shatter

Ancestry of “fracassare”, step by step

fracassare traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.

via Latin infra

Step	Language	Word	Meaning
1	Latin	infra	below
2	Latin	īnferā	—
3	French	inférer	to infer
4	Latin	īnferō	to carry, bring, put, place, or throw in, into, to, or upon somewhere or something; insert
5	Latin	īn-	un-, non-, not
6	Latin	în	in, at, on, upon, from (space)
7	Latin	en	lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
8	Proto-Italic	en	in
9	Proto-Indo-European	h₁én	in

via Italian cassare

Step	Language	Word	Meaning
1	Italian	cassare	to delete; to cross out; to extinguish; to stamp...
2	Latin	cassō	to nought, to annul, to nullify, to cassate
3	Latin	cassus	hollow, empty, devoid of something; lacking;...
4	Latin	cadō	to fall, to fall out
5	Proto-Italic	kadō	fall, sink
6	Proto-Indo-European	ḱad-	to fall

via Latin quassāre

Step	Language	Word	Meaning
1	Latin	quassāre	—
2	Latin	quatiō	to shake, agitate, batter, shatter, demolish, overthrow, rend

Words derived from “fracassare”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁én →Every word from Latin īn- →Every word from Proto-Italic en →