Where does “immunodeficienza” come from?
immunodeficienza (Italian) comes from Italian deficienza, from Latin deficientia, from Latin dēficiens, from Latin deficere, from Latin defectus, from Latin deficio, from Latin faciō, from Latin -torium.
immunodeficienza (Italian): immunodeficiency
Ancestry of “immunodeficienza”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Italian | deficienza | deficiency; shortage; weakness |
| 2 | Latin | deficientia | deficiency, want; nominative neuter plural of... |
| 3 | Latin | dēficiens | — |
| 4 | Latin | deficere | present active infinitive of dēficiō;... |
| 5 | Latin | defectus | failure; absence; weakness, failing, defect |
| 6 | Latin | deficio | I withdraw; I forsake, desert or abandon; I fail,... |
| 7 | Latin | faciō | — |
| 8 | Latin | -torium | nominative neuter singular of -tōrius; accusative... |
| 9 | Latin | -tōrius | — |
| 10 | Latin | -tor | -er |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | -tōr | — |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | -tōr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | -tor-s | — |