Where does “scemabile” come from?

scemabile (Italian) comes from Italian scemare, from Vulgar Latin exsemare, from Latin sēmis, from Latin tertius, from Latin trēs, from Proto-Italic trēs, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.

scemabile (Italian): reducible, diminishable

Definitions

  1. reducible, diminishable

Ancestry of “scemabile”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italianscemareto diminish in power, intensity, quantity, etc.;...
2Vulgar Latinexsemare—
3Latinsēmisa half, a half-unit
4Latintertiusthird, the ordinal number after secundus and...
5Latintrēsthree; 3
6Proto-Italictrēsthree
7Proto-Indo-European*tréyes—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes →