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Where does “scrittorello” come from?

scrittorello (Italian) comes from Italian scrittore, from Latin scriptor, from Latin -torium, from Latin -tōrius, from Latin -tor, from Proto-Italic -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s.

scrittorello (Italian): scribbler

Definitions

  1. scribbler

Ancestry of “scrittorello”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italianscrittorewriter, author
2Latinscriptorwriter, author; scribe
3Latin-toriumnominative neuter singular of -tōrius; accusative...
4Latin-tōrius—
5Latin-tor-er
6Proto-Italic-tōr—
7Proto-Indo-European-tōrDerives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone...
8Proto-Indo-European-tor-s—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s →