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Where does “protocollo” come from?

protocollo (Italian) comes from Medieval Latin protocollum, from Greek πρωτόκολλον, from Greek κόλλα — glue, gum; sizing, size; flour paste, starch...

protocollo (Italian): register; protocol; first-person singular present...

Definitions

  1. register; protocol; first-person singular present...

Ancestry of “protocollo”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Medieval Latinprotocollumthe first sheet of a volume
2Greekπρωτόκολλον—
3Greekκόλλαglue, gum; sizing, size; flour paste, starch...

Words derived from “protocollo”

  • protocollazione
  • protocollare
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