Where does “settenario” come from?

settenario (Italian) comes from Latin septēnārius, from Latin -ārius, from Proto-Italic *-āzios — Forms relational adjectives to nouns (and rarely numerals).

settenario (Italian): consisting of seven parts

Definitions

  1. consisting of seven parts

Ancestry of “settenario”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinseptēnāriuscontaining or consisting of seven things (e.g., metrical feet)
2Latin-āriuser
3Proto-Italic*-āziosForms relational adjectives to nouns (and rarely numerals)
Every word from Proto-Italic *-āzios →Every word from Latin -ārius →Every word from Latin septēnārius →