Where does “perpetuità” come from?
perpetuità (Italian) comes from Latin perpetuitas, from Latin perpetuus, from Latin -uus, from Proto-Italic *-wos, from Proto-Indo-European -wós — Creates adjectives from verb stems.
perpetuità (Italian): perpetuity
Definitions
- perpetuity
Ancestry of “perpetuità”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | perpetuitas | perpetuity, continuity |
| 2 | Latin | perpetuus | perpetual, continuous, uninterrupted, constant,... |
| 3 | Latin | -uus | forms adjectives on verbal stems |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | *-wos | — |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | -wós | Creates adjectives from verb stems |