Where does “radiotelegrafare” come from?
radiotelegrafare (Italian) comes from Italian telegrafare, from Italian telegrafo, from Italian tele, from Italian televisione, from Spanish televisión, from Spanish tele-, from Ancient Greek τῆλε, from Latin commūnicāre — a wooden vessel made of hooped staves; wooden...
radiotelegrafare (Italian): To radiotelegraph
Ancestry of “radiotelegrafare”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Italian | telegrafare | to telegraph, cable |
| 2 | Italian | telegrafo | telegraph; telegraph office; first-person... |
| 3 | Italian | tele | plural of tela; telly , TV |
| 4 | Italian | televisione | television |
| 5 | Spanish | televisión | television |
| 6 | Spanish | tele- | 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 | Middle Dutch | kitte | a wooden vessel made of hooped staves; wooden... |