Where does “monco” come from?
monco (Italian) comes from Italian manco, from Italian mancare, from Vulgar Latin *mancāre, from Latin mancus, from Proto-Indo-European mank-.
monco (Italian): maimed, mutilated; crippled; incomplete
Definitions
- maimed, mutilated; crippled; incomplete
Ancestry of “monco”, step by step
monco traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Italian manco
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Italian | manco | faulty, imperfect, maimed, missing something;... |
| 2 | Italian | mancare | to lack; to be lacking; to be missing, absent |
| 3 | Vulgar Latin | *mancāre | — |
| 4 | Latin | mancus | maimed, crippled, handicapped, infirm; defective,... |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | mank- | — |
via Italian tronco
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Italian | tronco | truncated; cut off, mutilated; broken, incomplete |
| 2 | Latin | truncus | lopped, docked; maimed, mangled, mutilated; A... |
| 3 | Proto-Indo-European | twerḱ- | to carve, cut off, trim |
Words derived from “monco”