Where does “picchettare” come from?
picchettare (Italian) comes from Italian picchetto, from French piquet, from French piquer, from Middle French picquer, from Old French piquer, from Vulgar Latin piccare, from Frankish pikkōn, from Proto-Germanic pikōną — "low-pitch humming noise".
picchettare (Italian): to stake out; to picket
Definitions
- to stake out; to picket
Ancestry of “picchettare”, step by step
picchettare traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Italian picchetto
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | picchetto | stake, peg; picket; first-person singular present... |
| 2 | French | piquet | picket; A school punishment in which a student... |
| 3 | French | piquer | to prick; to sting; to nick, pinch, steal |
| 4 | Middle French | picquer | to sting |
| 5 | Old French | piquer | to pierce with the tip of a sword |
| 6 | Vulgar Latin | piccare | to puncture; to sting, strike; to pierce |
| 7 | Frankish | pikkōn | to peck, strike |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | pikōną | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | bew- | "low-pitch humming noise" |
via Italian piccare
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | piccare | To peak |
| 2 | Italian | -are | Used, with a stem, to form the infinitive of most... |
| 3 | Latin | -ō | suffixed to nouns or adjectives. Originally a-stem nouns. Later extended to nouns with other stems. Forms regular first-conjugation verbs |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | -ō | Derives nouns from roots |