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Where does “smottatura” come from?

smottatura (Italian) comes from Italian smottare, from Italian -are, from Latin -ō, from Proto-Indo-European -ō — Derives nouns from roots.

smottatura (Italian): landslide area

Definitions

  1. landslide area

Ancestry of “smottatura”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1ItaliansmottareTo slide down; To overturn sods
2Italian-areUsed, with a stem, to form the infinitive of most...
3Latin-ō—
4Proto-Indo-European-ōDerives nouns from roots
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