Where does “microfiltrazione” come from?
microfiltrazione (Italian) comes from Italian filtrazione, from Italian filtrare, from Italian filtro, from Latin philtrum, from Ancient Greek φίλτρον, from Ancient Greek φιλέω, from Ancient Greek ἀτέλεια, from Ancient Greek ἀ- — together, one.
microfiltrazione (Italian): microfiltration
Ancestry of “microfiltrazione”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Italian | filtrazione | filtration; filtering, screening |
| 2 | Italian | filtrare | to filter, screen, strain |
| 3 | Italian | filtro | filter; potion, especially a love potion;... |
| 4 | Latin | philtrum | love potion, philter |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | φίλτρον | a love-charm, spell to produce love, whether a... |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | φιλέω | I love, like, regard highly; I treat kindly,... |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | ἀτέλεια | — |
| 8 | Ancient Greek | ἀ- | The alpha privativum, used to make words that... |
| 9 | Proto-Hellenic | hə- | same; together |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | sm̥- | one; with, together |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | sem- | together, one |