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Where does “sito” come from?

sito (Italian) comes from Latin situs, from Latin -tus, from Proto-Italic -tus, from Proto-Indo-European -tus — Derives action nouns from verb roots.

sito (Italian): situated, located, lying; site, specifically; bad...

Definitions

  1. situated, located, lying; site, specifically; bad...

Ancestry of “sito”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinsituspermitted, allowed, suffered, having been...
2Latin-tusForms the past participle of verbs; Forms...
3Proto-Italic-tus—
4Proto-Indo-European-tusDerives action nouns from verb roots

Words derived from “sito”

  • sita
  • siti
  • sitoteca
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tus →