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Where does “latitante” come from?

latitante (Italian) comes from Italian latitare, from Latin latitāre, from Latin -ito, from Latin -tō, from Latin -tus, from Proto-Italic -tus, from Proto-Indo-European -tus — Derives action nouns from verb roots.

latitante (Italian): in hiding; on the run; fugitive

Definitions

  1. in hiding; on the run; fugitive

Ancestry of “latitante”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1ItalianlatitareTo be absent; To abscond
2Latinlatitāre—
3Latin-itoForms frequentative verbs from existing verbs or...
4Latin-tō—
5Latin-tusForms the past participle of verbs; Forms...
6Proto-Italic-tus—
7Proto-Indo-European-tusDerives action nouns from verb roots
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tus →