Where does “scoppiare” come from?
scoppiare (Italian) comes from Italian coppia, from Vulgar Latin copla, from Latin cōpula, from Latin coapula, from Latin apio, from Latin apium, from Latin Apis, from Ancient Greek Ἄπις — the god Apis.
scoppiare (Italian): to explode, burst out, break out
Definitions
- to explode, burst out, break out
Ancestry of “scoppiare”, step by step
scoppiare traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Italian coppia
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | coppia | couple; pair |
| 2 | Vulgar Latin | copla | — |
| 3 | Latin | cōpula | a bond, tie, band or other connecting item |
| 4 | Latin | coapula | — |
| 5 | Latin | apio | dative singular of apium; ablative singular of... |
| 6 | Latin | apium | parsley; celery; genitive plural of apis |
| 7 | Latin | Apis | A seaport town of Egypt situated at the borders with Marmarica |
| 8 | Ancient Greek | Ἄπις | — |
| 9 | Coptic | ϩⲁⲡⲉ | the Apis bull, a bull worshipped as a herald of the gods (first Ptah, then Osiris, then Atum) |
| 10 | Egyptian | ḥp | the god Apis |