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Where does “radiotelescrivente” come from?

radiotelescrivente (Italian) comes from Italian telescrivente, from Italian scrivente, from Italian scrivere, from Latin scrībō, from Proto-Italic skreiβō, from Proto-Indo-European skreybʰ- — to write.

radiotelescrivente (Italian): radio teletype

Definitions

  1. radio teletype

Ancestry of “radiotelescrivente”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italiantelescriventeteleprinter; telex; news ticker
2Italianscriventepresent participle of scrivere; writer
3Italianscrivereto write, pen; to spell
4Latinscrībō—
5Proto-Italicskreiβōto carve
6Proto-Indo-Europeanskreybʰ-to write
Every word from Proto-Indo-European skreybʰ- →