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

Definitions

  1. immunodeficiency

Ancestry of “immunodeficienza”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italiandeficienzadeficiency; shortage; weakness
2Latindeficientiadeficiency, want; nominative neuter plural of...
3Latindēficiensfailing, disappointing
4Latindeficerepresent active infinitive of dēficiō;...
5Latindefectusfailure; absence; weakness, failing, defect
6LatindeficioI withdraw; I forsake, desert or abandon; I fail,...
7Latinfaciōto do
8Latin-toriumnominative neuter singular of -tōrius; accusative...
9Latin-tōriusory
10Latin-tor-er
11Proto-Italic-tōrForms agent nouns to verb stems
12Proto-Indo-European-tōrDerives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone...
13Proto-Indo-European-tor-s
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tor-sEvery word from Latin -toriumEvery word from Latin -tor
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