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Where does “scortecciatura” come from?

scortecciatura (Italian) comes from Italian scortecciare, from Italian corteccia, from Latin corticea, from Latin cortex, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kort-ek-s.

scortecciatura (Italian): peeling

Definitions

  1. peeling

Ancestry of “scortecciatura”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italianscortecciareto strip
2Italiancortecciacortex; bark
3Latincorticea—
4LatincortexThe bark of a tree; the bark of a cork tree;...
5Proto-Indo-European*(s)kort-ek-s—
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