Where does “scemenza” come from?
scemenza (Italian) comes from Italian scemo, 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.
scemenza (Italian): stupidity
Definitions
- stupidity
Ancestry of “scemenza”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | scemo | stupid, silly, daft; fool, idiot; first-person... |
| 2 | Italian | scemare | to diminish in power, intensity, quantity, etc.;... |
| 3 | Vulgar Latin | exsemare | — |
| 4 | Latin | sēmis | a half, a half-unit |
| 5 | Latin | tertius | third, the ordinal number after secundus and... |
| 6 | Latin | trēs | three; 3 |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | trēs | three |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | *tréyes | — |