Where does “lapidate” come from?

lapidate (Italian) comes from Italian lapidare, from Latin lapidō, from Latin lapis, from Proto-Italic *lapets — stone.

lapidate (Italian): second-person plural present indicative of...

Definitions

  1. second-person plural present indicative of...

Ancestry of “lapidate”, step by step

lapidate traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Italian lapidare

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italianlapidareto stone; to lap
2Latinlapidōto stone, throw stones at
3Latinlapisa stone; a milestone; a boundary stone
4Proto-Italic*lapetsstone

via Italian lapidato

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italianlapidatopast participle of lapidare
Every word from Proto-Italic *lapets →Every word from Latin lapis →Every word from Latin lapidō →