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Where does “intrigo” come from?

intrigo (Italian) comes from Italian intrigare, from Latin intrīcō, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en, from Proto-Indo-European h₁én — in.

intrigo (Italian): intrigue; scheme, plot; first-person singular...

Definitions

  1. intrigue; scheme, plot; first-person singular...

Ancestry of “intrigo”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italianintrigareto scheme, plot, intrigue; to entangle
2Latinintrīcō—
3Latinīn-—
4Latinîn—
5Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
6Proto-Italicenin
7Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁én →