Where does “lungometraggio” come from?
lungometraggio (Italian) comes from Italian metraggio, from Italian metro, from French métro, from French métropolitain, from Latin mētropolītānus, from Ancient Greek μητροπολίτης, from Ancient Greek μητρόπολις, from Ancient Greek πόλις — fortification, city.
lungometraggio (Italian): a film that lasts about one to two hours
Definitions
- a film that lasts about one to two hours
Ancestry of “lungometraggio”, step by step
lungometraggio traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Italian metraggio
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | metraggio | measurement; length; footage |
| 2 | Italian | metro | metre, meter; ruler, ruler, measure; yardstick,... |
| 3 | French | métro | metro; subway US, underground UK, Tube UK |
| 4 | French | métropolitain | metropolitan; subway, underground; Person from... |
| 5 | Latin | mētropolītānus | metropolitan |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | μητροπολίτης | metropolitan |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | μητρόπολις | mother-state; one's mother-city, mother country,... |
| 8 | Ancient Greek | πόλις | city; a whole country, as dependent on and called... |
| 9 | Proto-Hellenic | ptólis | city |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | tpólHis | — |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | tpelH- | fortification, city |
via Italian lungo
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | lungo | long; length; along |
| 2 | Latin | longus | far, long; extended, prolonged; long; tedious,... |
| 3 | Latin | -ē | ly; used to form adverbs from adjectives |
| 4 | Latin | dis- | asunder, apart, in two; reversal, removal;... |
| 5 | Latin | calceus | shoe |
| 6 | Latin | calx | limestone; chalk; the finish line |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | χάλιξ | small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble |