Where does “incasellare” come from?
incasellare (Italian) comes from Italian casella, from Latin casella, from Latin casula, from Latin -ulus, from Proto-Italic -olos, from Proto-Italic -elos, from Proto-Indo-European -e-lós, from Proto-Indo-European -lós — Forms agent nouns from verbal roots.
incasellare (Italian): to sort post/mail; to pigeonhole
Definitions
- to sort post/mail; to pigeonhole
Ancestry of “incasellare”, step by step
incasellare traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via Italian casella
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | casella | box; square; pigeonhole |
| 2 | Latin | casella | hut, small cottage; small farm |
| 3 | Latin | casula | hut, small cottage; rural property, small farm;... |
| 4 | Latin | -ulus | Used to form a diminutive of a noun, indicating... |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | -olos | — |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | -elos | Forms desubstantival and deadjectival diminutive nouns |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -e-lós | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -lós | Forms agent nouns from verbal roots |
via Italian are
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | are | Archaic form of aere; plural of ara |
| 2 | Italian | aere | air; appearance, aspect; nature, disposition |
| 3 | Old French | aire | appearance; semblance |
| 4 | Latin | ārea | a piece of level ground, a vacant place (esp. in the town) |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | āzeā | — |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂eHs-e-yeh₂ | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂eHs- | to be/become dry; to burn, to glow; hearth |