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Where does “sparuto” come from?

sparuto (Italian) comes from Italian sparire, from Italian apparire, from English appear, from Middle English apperen, from Old French aparoir, from Latin appāreō, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn- — in.

sparuto (Italian): emaciated; small, scanty, meagre, scant

Definitions

  1. emaciated; small, scanty, meagre, scant

Ancestry of “sparuto”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italiansparireto disappear; to vanish, to fade; to go away
2Italianapparireto appear; to seem, to look; to grow
3EnglishappearTo come or be in sight; to be in view; to become...
4Middle Englishapperen—
5Old Frenchaparoirto appear
6Latinappāreō—
7Latinad-to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it...
8Latinīn-—
9Latinîn—
10Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
11Proto-Italicenin
12Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁én →