Where does “levirato” come from?

levirato (Italian) comes from Italian -ato, from Latin -ātus, from Proto-Italic -ātos, from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂tos — Forms adjectives from nouns, indicating the possession of a thing or a quality.

levirato (Italian): levirate

Definitions

  1. levirate

Ancestry of “levirato”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italian-atoUsed with a stem to form the past participle of...
2Latin-ātused
3Proto-Italic-ātos—
4Proto-Indo-European-éh₂tosForms adjectives from nouns, indicating the possession of a thing or a quality
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂tos →Every word from Latin -ātus →Every word from Italian -ato →