Where does “pressoterapia” come from?

pressoterapia (Italian) comes from Italian terapia, from Italian -ista, from Latin -ista, from Ancient Greek -ιστής, from Ancient Greek -τής, from Proto-Hellenic -tās.

pressoterapia (Italian): pressotherapy

Definitions

  1. pressotherapy

Ancestry of “pressoterapia”, step by step

pressoterapia traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Italian terapia

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italianterapiatherapy, treatment
2Italian-ista-ist
3Latin-ista-ist; one who practises or believes
4Ancient Greek-ιστήςAlternative form of -τής; -ist
5Ancient Greek-τήςAppended to verbs to form agent nouns
6Proto-Hellenic-tās—

via Italian pressare

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italianpressareto press; to urge or solicit insistently; to beg;...
2Latinpressāre—
3Latinpremeresecond-person singular future passive indicative...
4LatinpremoI press; I pursue
5Proto-Indo-Europeanpres-to press
Every word from Proto-Hellenic -tās →