Where does “paraffinate” come from?

paraffinate (Italian) comes from Italian paraffinare, from Italian -are, from Latin -ō, from Proto-Indo-European -ō — Derives nouns from roots.

paraffinate (Italian): second-person plural present indicative of...

Definitions

  1. second-person plural present indicative of...

Ancestry of “paraffinate”, step by step

paraffinate traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Italian paraffinare

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1ItalianparaffinareTo paraffin
2Italian-areUsed, with a stem, to form the infinitive of most...
3Latin-ōsuffixed to nouns or adjectives. Originally a-stem nouns. Later extended to nouns with other stems. Forms regular first-conjugation verbs
4Proto-Indo-European-ōDerives nouns from roots

via Italian paraffinato

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italianparaffinatopast participle of paraffinare
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -ō →Every word from Latin -ō →Every word from Italian -are →