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Where does “giovinastro” come from?

giovinastro (Italian) comes from Italian giovine, from Italian giovane, from Latin iuvenis, from Proto-Italic *juwō.

giovinastro (Italian): young thug

Definitions

  1. young thug

Ancestry of “giovinastro”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1ItaliangiovineAlternative form of giovane
2Italiangiovaneyoung; youthful; a youth
3Latiniuvenisyoung; A youth, a young man, young woman, young...
4Proto-Italic*juwō—
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