Where does “ignoto” come from?

ignoto (Italian) comes from Latin ignotus, from Latin ignosco, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en, from Proto-Indo-European h₁én — in.

ignoto (Italian): unknown; the unknown; unknown person

Definitions

  1. unknown; the unknown; unknown person

Ancestry of “ignoto”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinignotusforgiven; unknown, foreign, alien; strange, odd,...
2LatinignoscoI forgive, pardon, excuse, overlook
3Latinīn-un-, non-, not
4Latinînin, at, on, upon, from (space)
5Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
6Proto-Italicenin
7Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁én →Every word from Latin īn- →Every word from Proto-Italic en →