Where does “prediletto” come from?
prediletto (Italian) comes from Latin praedīlēctus, from Latin dīlēctus, from Latin dīligō, from Latin legō, from Latin lēx, from Proto-Italic lēg-, from Proto-Indo-European leǵ-s, from Proto-Indo-European leǵ- — to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to...
Ancestry of “prediletto”, step by step