Where does “saltimbocca” come from?

saltimbocca (Italian) comes from Italian saltare, from Latin saltō, from Latin saliō, from Latin sāl, from Proto-Italic sāls, from Proto-Indo-European *sḗh₂l — salt.

saltimbocca (Italian): saltimbocca

Definitions

  1. saltimbocca

Ancestry of “saltimbocca”, step by step

saltimbocca traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Italian saltare

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italiansaltareto jump, to leap, to spring; to explode, to blow...
2Latinsaltōto dance, jump
3Latinsaliōto leap, jump, bound
4Latinsālsalt
5Proto-Italicsālssalt
6Proto-Indo-European*sḗh₂lsalt

via Italian in

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italianinin; to; into
2Latinînin, at, on, upon, from (space)
3Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
4Proto-Italicenin
5Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin

Words derived from “saltimbocca”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European *sḗh₂l →Every word from Proto-Italic sāls →Every word from Latin sāl →