Where does “incredulo” come from?
incredulo (Italian) comes from Latin incredulus, from Latin crēdulus, 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.
incredulo (Italian): incredulous, disbelieving; unbelieving;...
Definitions
- incredulous, disbelieving; unbelieving;...
Ancestry of “incredulo”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | incredulus | unbelieving, disbelieving, incredulous;... |
| 2 | Latin | crēdulus | that easily believes a thing, easy of belief |
| 3 | Latin | -ulus | Used to form a diminutive of a noun, indicating... |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | -olos | — |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | -elos | Forms desubstantival and deadjectival diminutive nouns |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -e-lós | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -lós | Forms agent nouns from verbal roots |