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Where does “messaggio” come from?

messaggio (Italian) comes from Old French message, from Latin missāticum, from Latin missus, from Latin -tus, from Proto-Italic -tus, from Proto-Indo-European -tus — Derives action nouns from verb roots.

messaggio (Italian): message; first-person singular present indicative...

Definitions

  1. message; first-person singular present indicative...

Ancestry of “messaggio”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchmessagemessage; messenger
2Latinmissāticum—
3Latinmissussent, having been sent, caused to go, having been...
4Latin-tusForms the past participle of verbs; Forms...
5Proto-Italic-tus—
6Proto-Indo-European-tusDerives action nouns from verb roots

Words derived from “messaggio”

  • messaggeria
  • videomessaggio
  • radiomessaggio
  • messaggistica
  • messaggio
  • messaggiare
  • telemessaggio
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tus →