Where does “lutto” come from?

lutto (Italian) comes from Latin lūctus, from Latin -tus, from Proto-Italic -tus, from Proto-Indo-European -tus — Derives action nouns from verb roots.

lutto (Italian): mourning

Definitions

  1. mourning

Ancestry of “lutto”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinlūctusmourned, grieved, lamented
2Latin-tusForms the past participle of verbs; Forms...
3Proto-Italic-tus—
4Proto-Indo-European-tusDerives action nouns from verb roots
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tus →Every word from Latin -tus →Every word from Latin lūctus →
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