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Where does “scemo” come from?

scemo (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.

scemo (Italian): stupid, silly, daft; fool, idiot; first-person...

Definitions

  1. stupid, silly, daft; fool, idiot; first-person...

Ancestry of “scemo”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italianscemareto diminish in power, intensity, quantity, etc.;...
2Vulgar Latinexsemare—
3Latinsēmis—
4Latintertiusthird, the ordinal number after secundus and...
5Latintrēs—
6Proto-Italictrēsthree
7Proto-Indo-European*tréyes—
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