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—
3Latinsēmisa half, a half-unit
4Latintertiusthird, the ordinal number after secundus and...
5Latintrēsthree; 3
6Proto-Italictrēsthree
7Proto-Indo-European*tréyes—

Words derived from “scemo”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes →Every word from Proto-Italic trēs →Every word from Latin trēs →