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Where does “inaffondabile” come from?

inaffondabile (Italian) comes from Italian affondabile, from Italian affondare, from Vulgar Latin affundare, from Latin Ad, from Latin illic, from Latin ille, from Latin olle, from Proto-Italic *olnos.

inaffondabile (Italian): unsinkable

Definitions

  1. unsinkable

Ancestry of “inaffondabile”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italianaffondabilesinkable
2Italianaffondareto sink; to sink, to dig, to plunge; To deepen by...
3Vulgar Latinaffundaresecond-person singular present passive...
4LatinAd—
5Latinilliche, she, it, yonder, that, overthere; in that...
6Latinillethat; those; "; demonstrative pronoun "; that...
7LatinolleArchaic form of ille
8Proto-Italic*olnos—
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