Where does “incontentabilità” come from?
incontentabilità (Italian) comes from Italian incontentabile, from Italian contentabile, from Italian contentare, from Late Latin contentare, from Latin contento, from Latin contentus, from Latin contineo, from Latin cōn- — resin.
incontentabilità (Italian): fussiness, fastidiousness
Definitions
- fussiness, fastidiousness
Ancestry of “incontentabilità”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Italian | incontentabile | insatiable; hard to please; fastidious, fussy |
| 2 | Italian | contentabile | Used in the expressions difficilmente... |
| 3 | Italian | contentare | To please or satisfy; alternative form of... |
| 4 | Late Latin | contentare | — |
| 5 | Latin | contento | dative masculine singular of contentus; dative... |
| 6 | Latin | contentus | stretched, strained, tense, tight, on the... |
| 7 | Latin | contineo | I hold or keep together/close, surround, contain;... |
| 8 | Latin | cōn- | — |
| 9 | Latin | cum | with, along with; at; -fold |
| 10 | Old Latin | com | Alternative form of cum |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | kom | with, along, at |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 14 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 15 | German | kitt | — |
| 16 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 17 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 18 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |