Where does “radiotelefoni” come from?
radiotelefoni (Italian) comes from Italian radiotelefonare, from Italian telefonare, from Romanian telefona, from French téléphoner, from French téléphone, from French télé-, from Ancient Greek τῆλε, from Latin commūnicāre — whale, sea monster; abyss.
radiotelefoni (Italian): plural of radiotelefono; inflection of...
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- plural of radiotelefono; inflection of...
Ancestry of “radiotelefoni”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Italian | radiotelefonare | To radiotelephone |
| 2 | Italian | telefonare | to telephone ; to make a phone call |
| 3 | Romanian | telefona | — |
| 4 | French | téléphoner | To call, to ring, to telephone |
| 5 | French | téléphone | telephone; first-person singular present... |
| 6 | French | télé- | tele- |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | τῆλε | far off, afar, far away |
| 8 | Latin | commūnicāre | — |
| 9 | Latin | commūnis | — |
| 10 | Old Latin | com(m)oinis | — |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | kommoinis | — |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱom-moy-ni- | held in common |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 15 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 16 | Russian | кит | whale; genitive plural of ки́та |
| 17 | Old Church Slavonic | китъ | whale |
| 18 | Ancient Greek | κῆτος | whale, sea monster; abyss |