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Where does “piombifero” come from?

piombifero (Italian) comes from Italian piombo, from Latin plumbum, from Ancient Greek μόλυβδος, from Proto-Indo-European morkʷ-iyo-.

piombifero (Italian): plumbiferous, lead-bearing

Definitions

  1. plumbiferous, lead-bearing

Ancestry of “piombifero”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italianpiombolead; grey; bullet
2Latinplumbumlead; ball of lead; pipe of lead
3Ancient Greekμόλυβδοςlead; graphite
4Proto-Indo-Europeanmorkʷ-iyo-—
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