Where does “sgomentoso” come from?
sgomentoso (Italian) comes from Italian sgomento, from Italian sgomentare, from Vulgar Latin *excommento, from Latin ēx-, from Proto-Indo-European eǵ-.
sgomentoso (Italian): alarming, dismaying
Ancestry of “sgomentoso”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Italian | sgomento | dismayed; dismay; first-person singular present... |
| 2 | Italian | sgomentare | to alarm, dismay |
| 3 | Vulgar Latin | *excommento | — |
| 4 | Latin | ēx- | — |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | eǵ- | — |