Where does “nominativo” come from?
nominativo (Italian) comes from Latin nōminātīvus, from Ancient Greek ὀνομαστική, from Ancient Greek ὀνομαστικός, from Ancient Greek ὀνομαστός, from Ancient Greek ὀνομάζω, from Ancient Greek ὄνομα, from Proto-Indo-European h₁nómn̥, from Proto-Indo-European h₃neh₃- — to name.
nominativo (Italian): nominative; registered; nominative case
Definitions
- nominative; registered; nominative case
Ancestry of “nominativo”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Latin | nōminātīvus | — |
| 2 | Ancient Greek | ὀνομαστική | — |
| 3 | Ancient Greek | ὀνομαστικός | good at naming; Of or concerning naming; the... |
| 4 | Ancient Greek | ὀνομαστός | named; famous, of note, notable |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | ὀνομάζω | I speak of by name, address by name; I call one... |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | ὄνομα | name; fame; noun, in the wide sense: referring to... |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁nómn̥ | name |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | h₃neh₃- | to name |
Words derived from “nominativo”