Where does “perfide” come from?
perfide (Italian) comes from Italian perfido, from Latin perfidus, from Latin per, from Latin Ad, from Latin illic, from Latin ille, from Latin olle, from Proto-Italic *olnos.
perfide (Italian): feminine plural of perfido
Definitions
- feminine plural of perfido
Ancestry of “perfide”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Italian | perfido | perfidious |
| 2 | Latin | perfidus | That breaks his promise; faithless, false,... |
| 3 | Latin | per | through, by means of; throughout, during |
| 4 | Latin | Ad | — |
| 5 | Latin | illic | he, she, it, yonder, that, overthere; in that... |
| 6 | Latin | ille | that; those; "; demonstrative pronoun "; that... |
| 7 | Latin | olle | Archaic form of ille |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | *olnos | — |