Where does “per caso” come from?
per caso (Italian) comes from Latin casus, from Latin cadere, from Latin cado, from Proto-Italic kadō, from Proto-Indo-European ḱad- — to fall.
per caso (Italian): by chance, by the way
Ancestry of “per caso”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Latin | casus | a fall, downwards movement; accident, chance; an... |
| 2 | Latin | cadere | present active infinitive of cadō; to fall, to... |
| 3 | Latin | cado | I fall, I fall out; I die; I cease |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | kadō | fall, sink |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱad- | to fall |