Where does “neopatentato” come from?
neopatentato (Italian) comes from Italian patentato, from Italian patentare, from Romanian patentă, from German patentieren, from German -ieren, from French -er, from English -er, from Middle English -er — he, she.
neopatentato (Italian): newly patented
Ancestry of “neopatentato”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Italian | patentato | licensed, certified; permitted; utter, thorough,... |
| 2 | Italian | patentare | to give a licence |
| 3 | Romanian | patentă | — |
| 4 | German | patentieren | to patent |
| 5 | German | -ieren | Verb suffix: it and its inflected forms are found... |
| 6 | French | -er | Forms infinitives of first-conjugation verbs |
| 7 | English | -er | A person or thing that does an action indicated... |
| 8 | Middle English | -er | agentive suffix; agent noun suffix |
| 9 | Old French | -er | Alternative form of -ier, verbal suffix;... |
| 10 | Latin | -āre | — |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | -āō | Forms primarily denominative verbs |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | -eh₂yéti | Creates iterative/ frequentative/ intensive... |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | -yéti | Creates intransitive, often deponent,... |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | yé- | — |
| 15 | Chichewa | iye | he, she |