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...
Definitions
- plural of radiotelefono; inflection of...
Ancestry of “radiotelefoni”, step by step
radiotelefoni traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Italian radiotelefonare
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | radiotelefonare | To radiotelephone |
| 2 | Italian | telefonare | to telephone, to call, to make a phone call |
| 3 | Romanian | telefona | to call, to phone |
| 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 | common, commonplace, ordinary, general, universal, shared, shared alike, of both sides, belonging to two or more together |
| 10 | Old Latin | com(m)oinis | — |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | kommoinis | common |
| 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 |
via Italian radiotelefono
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | radiotelefono | radio telephone; cordless phone |
| 2 | Italian | radio- | radio |
| 3 | Latin | radio- | — |
| 4 | Latin | radius | ray; staff, rod; spoke |
| 5 | English | -án | Of or pertaining to;. Often added to words of Latin origin, but also used with words of other origins. When a word ends in a |
| 6 | Middle English | -an | — |