Where does “scemamento” come from?

scemamento (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.

scemamento (Italian): lessening, abating, reduction

Definitions

  1. lessening, abating, reduction

Ancestry of “scemamento”, 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 →Every word from Proto-Italic trēs →Every word from Latin trēs →