Where does “primitivismo” come from?
primitivismo (Italian) comes from Italian primitivo, from Latin prīmitīvus, from Latin primitus, from Latin prīmus, from Latin prīsmos, from Proto-Italic priisemos, from Proto-Indo-European per-, from Proto-Indo-European pr̥tós — passed , crossed.
primitivismo (Italian): primitivism
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- primitivism
Ancestry of “primitivismo”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | primitivo | primitive; original; primitive man |
| 2 | Latin | prīmitīvus | primitive (first of its kind), original |
| 3 | Latin | primitus | originally, at first, from the first, from/at... |
| 4 | Latin | prīmus | — |
| 5 | Latin | prīsmos | — |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | priisemos | foremost, first |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | per- | before, in front; first; to go through |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | pr̥tós | passed , crossed |