Where does “metatelevisivo” come from?
metatelevisivo (Italian) comes from Italian televisivo, from Italian visivo, from Late Latin visivus, from Latin visus, from Latin videre, from Latin video, from Proto-Italic widēō, from Proto-Indo-European weyd- — to see.
metatelevisivo (Italian): metatelevisual
Ancestry of “metatelevisivo”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Italian | televisivo | TV, television |
| 2 | Italian | visivo | visual |
| 3 | Late Latin | visivus | — |
| 4 | Latin | visus | The action of looking; The power of sight; A... |
| 5 | Latin | videre | inflection of videō:
## present active... |
| 6 | Latin | video | I see, perceive; look; I observe, note; I... |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | widēō | see |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | weyd- | to see |