Where does “ricantare” come from?
ricantare (Italian) comes from Italian cantare, from Latin cantāre, from Latin canere, from Latin caneo, from Latin -eo, from Proto-Italic -ēō, from Proto-Italic -ējō, from Proto-Indo-European -éh₁yeti — Creates transitive imperfective verbs from roots.
ricantare (Italian): to sing again; to say over and over again
Definitions
- to sing again; to say over and over again
Ancestry of “ricantare”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Italian | cantare | to sing |
| 2 | Latin | cantāre | — |
| 3 | Latin | canere | present active infinitive of canō; second-person... |
| 4 | Latin | caneo | I am white, gray or hoary |
| 5 | Latin | -eo | Forms stative verbs from adjectives; dative... |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | -ēō | Forms stative verbs, indicating a state of being;... |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | -ējō | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -éh₁yeti | Thematicization of the athematic stative verbal... |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -yeti | Creates transitive imperfective verbs from roots |