Where does “meleto” come from?
meleto (Italian) comes from Italian melo, from Vulgar Latin melus, from Latin malus, from Ancient Greek μηλέα, from Ancient Greek μῆλον, from Proto-Indo-European (s)meh₁l- — small animal”; small animal.
meleto (Italian): an orchard of apple trees
Definitions
- an orchard of apple trees
Ancestry of “meleto”, step by step
meleto traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Italian melo
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | melo | apple tree, apple |
| 2 | Vulgar Latin | melus | apple tree |
| 3 | Latin | malus | unpleasant, distressing, painful, nasty, bad;... |
| 4 | Ancient Greek | μηλέα | apple tree |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | μῆλον | apple; any fruit from a tree; a woman's breast |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)meh₁l- | small animal”; small animal |
via Ancient Greek μελετάω
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ancient Greek | μελετάω | to care for, attend to |
| 2 | Ancient Greek | -άω | Forms verbs, usually from nouns in |
| 3 | Proto-Indo-European | -eh₂yéti | Creates iterative/ frequentative/ intensive... |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | -yéti | Creates intransitive, often deponent,... |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | yé- | — |
| 6 | Chichewa | iye | he, she |