Where does “porcella” come from?
porcella (Italian) comes from Italian porca, from Latin porca, from Esperanto porka, from Esperanto porko, from Latin porcus, from Proto-Italic porkos, from Proto-Indo-European pórḱos, from Proto-Indo-European perḱ- — passed , crossed.
porcella (Italian): female equivalent of porcello; slut, bitch, goer
Definitions
- female equivalent of porcello; slut, bitch, goer
Ancestry of “porcella”, step by step
porcella traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Italian porca
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | porca | the ridge between two furrows; balk; sow; A... |
| 2 | Latin | porca | sow; the ridge between two furrows; a balk |
| 3 | Esperanto | porka | porcine |
| 4 | Esperanto | porko | pig |
| 5 | Latin | porcus | a piglet, a young pig; a pig, hog; Short for... |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | porkos | pig |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | pórḱos | piglet |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | perḱ- | colored; motley; to open, rip up |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | per- | before, in front; first; to go through |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | pr̥tós | passed , crossed |
via Late Latin porcella
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Late Latin | porcella | female piglet; a woman's vulva, pussy |
| 2 | Latin | porcellus | piglet |
| 3 | Latin | porculus | piglet; a little pig |
| 4 | Latin | -ulus | Used to form a diminutive of a noun, indicating... |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | -olos | — |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | -elos | Forms desubstantival and deadjectival diminutive nouns |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -e-lós | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -lós | Forms agent nouns from verbal roots |