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Where does “sovrasterzare” come from?

sovrasterzare (Italian) comes from Italian sterzare, from Italian terzo, from Latin tertius, from Latin trēs, from Proto-Italic trēs, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.

sovrasterzare (Italian): to oversteer

Definitions

  1. to oversteer

Ancestry of “sovrasterzare”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italiansterzareto steer; to swerve
2Italianterzothird; uninvolved, neutral, third-party; others
3Latintertiusthird, the ordinal number after secundus and...
4Latintrēs—
5Proto-Italictrēsthree
6Proto-Indo-European*tréyes—
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