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Where does “sedimentoso” come from?

sedimentoso (Italian) comes from Italian sedimento, from Latin sedimentum, from Latin -mentum, from Latin -menta, from Proto-Indo-European -mn̥ — Creates action nouns or result nouns from verbs.

sedimentoso (Italian): sedimented

Definitions

  1. sedimented

Ancestry of “sedimentoso”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italiansedimentosediment; first-person singular present...
2LatinsedimentumA settling, sinking down, subsidence
3Latin-mentuminstrument, medium, or result of; e.g....
4Latin-mentanominative plural of -mentum; accusative plural...
5Proto-Indo-European-mn̥Creates action nouns or result nouns from verbs
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -mn̥ →