Where does “riscossone” come from?
riscossone (Italian) comes from Italian scossone, from Italian scossa, from Italian scosso, from Latin excussus, from Latin excutere, from Latin ex, from Latin commūnicō, from Latin commūnis — whale, sea monster; abyss.
riscossone (Italian): a sudden jolt
Definitions
- a sudden jolt
Ancestry of “riscossone”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | scossone | jolt |
| 2 | Italian | scossa | jolt, jerk |
| 3 | Italian | scosso | past participle of scuotere; shaken or shocked;... |
| 4 | Latin | excussus | shaken off; discarded, banished; examined,... |
| 5 | Latin | excutere | present active infinitive of excutiō;... |
| 6 | Latin | ex | A name of the letter "X"; out of, from |
| 7 | Latin | commūnicō | to impart, share |
| 8 | Latin | commūnis | common, commonplace, ordinary, general, universal, shared, shared alike, of both sides, belonging to two or more together |
| 9 | Old Latin | com(m)oinis | — |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | kommoinis | common |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱom-moy-ni- | held in common |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 14 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 15 | Russian | кит | whale; genitive plural of ки́та |
| 16 | Old Church Slavonic | китъ | whale |
| 17 | Ancient Greek | κῆτος | whale, sea monster; abyss |