Where does “lombricoltore” come from?
lombricoltore (Italian) comes from Italian lombricoltura, from Italian coltura, from Latin cultūra, from Latin cultus, from Latin colere, from Latin colo, from Latin quelo, from Proto-Italic kʷelō — to turn.
lombricoltore (Italian): earthworm breeder
Ancestry of “lombricoltore”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Italian | lombricoltura | earthworm breeding |
| 2 | Italian | coltura | cultivation; culture |
| 3 | Latin | cultūra | — |
| 4 | Latin | cultus | tilled, cultivated, having been cultivated;... |
| 5 | Latin | colere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 6 | Latin | colo | I till, cultivate the land; I inhabit; I protect,... |
| 7 | Latin | quelo | — |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | kʷelō | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷéleti | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷel- | to turn |