Where does “imposta” come from?
imposta (Italian) comes from Latin impōsitus, from Latin impōnō, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en, from Proto-Indo-European h₁én — in.
imposta (Italian): tax, duty, customs; shutter; feminine singular of...
Definitions
- tax, duty, customs; shutter; feminine singular of...
Ancestry of “imposta”, step by step
imposta traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Latin impōsitus
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | impōsitus | imposed, put upon |
| 2 | Latin | impōnō | to place, lay, set, or put on, in, into, over, or upon |
| 3 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 4 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 5 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |
via Latin imposta
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | imposta | — |