Where does “retrovisore” come from?
retrovisore (Italian) comes from Italian visore, from Latin visor, from Latin videō, from Proto-Italic widēō, from Proto-Indo-European weyd- — to see.
retrovisore (Italian): rearview mirror
Ancestry of “retrovisore”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Italian | visore | viewer; apparatus for viewing; electronic scope... |
| 2 | Latin | visor | one who sees, looks at, watches; a seer, viewer,... |
| 3 | Latin | videō | — |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | widēō | see |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | weyd- | to see |