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
Ancestry of “inaffondabile”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Italian | affondabile | sinkable |
| 2 | Italian | affondare | to sink; to sink, to dig, to plunge; To deepen by... |
| 3 | Vulgar Latin | affundare | second-person singular present passive... |
| 4 | Latin | Ad | — |
| 5 | Latin | illic | he, she, it, yonder, that, overthere; in that... |
| 6 | Latin | ille | that; those; "; demonstrative pronoun "; that... |
| 7 | Latin | olle | Archaic form of ille |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | *olnos | — |