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
- stupid, silly, daft; fool, idiot; first-person...
Ancestry of “scemo”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Italian | scemare | to diminish in power, intensity, quantity, etc.;... |
| 2 | Vulgar Latin | exsemare | — |
| 3 | Latin | sēmis | — |
| 4 | Latin | tertius | third, the ordinal number after secundus and... |
| 5 | Latin | trēs | — |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | trēs | three |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | *tréyes | — |