Where does “scintigrafico” come from?

scintigrafico (Italian) comes from Italian scintigrafia, from Italian scintilla, from Latin scintilla, from Proto-Indo-European ski-nto-, from Proto-Indo-European skey-, from Proto-Indo-European sek- — to cut, cut off, sever.

scintigrafico (Italian): scintigraphic

Definitions

  1. scintigraphic

Ancestry of “scintigrafico”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italianscintigrafiascintigraphy
2Italianscintillaspark; third-person singular present of...
3Latinscintillaspark; glimmer
4Proto-Indo-Europeanski-nto-
5Proto-Indo-Europeanskey-to split, to dissect
6Proto-Indo-Europeansek-to cut, cut off, sever
Every word from Proto-Indo-European sek-