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Where does “fracasso” come from?

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

fracasso (Italian): din, hullabaloo; crash; fracas

Definitions

  1. din, hullabaloo; crash; fracas

Ancestry of “fracasso”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1ItalianfracassareTo smash or shatter
2Latininfrabelow
3Latinīnferā—
4Frenchinférerto infer
5Latinīnferō—
6Latinīn-—
7Latinîn—
8Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
9Proto-Italicenin
10Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin

Words derived from “fracasso”

  • fracassoso
  • fracassosamente
  • fracasso
  • fracassar
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁én →