Where does “sfaccendato” come from?
sfaccendato (Italian) comes from Italian sfaccendare, from Italian faccenda, from Latin facienda, from Latin faciendus, from Latin faciō, from Latin -torium, from Latin -tōrius, from Latin -tor.
sfaccendato (Italian): lazy, indolent; idler, loafer, good-for-nothing;...
Definitions
- lazy, indolent; idler, loafer, good-for-nothing;...
Ancestry of “sfaccendato”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Italian | sfaccendare | to be busy or bustle about |
| 2 | Italian | faccenda | task, labour; issue, matter, affair, business,... |
| 3 | Latin | facienda | nominative feminine singular of faciendus;... |
| 4 | Latin | faciendus | which is to be done or made |
| 5 | Latin | faciō | — |
| 6 | Latin | -torium | nominative neuter singular of -tōrius; accusative... |
| 7 | Latin | -tōrius | — |
| 8 | Latin | -tor | -er |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | -tōr | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -tōr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | -tor-s | — |