Where does “spasso” come from?
spasso (Italian) comes from Vulgar Latin expassare, from Latin expandō, from Latin pandō, from Latin pandus, from Latin -us, from Old Latin -os, from Proto-Italic -os, from Proto-Indo-European -ós — Creates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting...
spasso (Italian): fun; leisure; walk
Definitions
- fun; leisure; walk
Ancestry of “spasso”, step by step
spasso traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Vulgar Latin expassare
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vulgar Latin | expassare | — |
| 2 | Latin | expandō | to spread something out |
| 3 | Latin | pandō | to spread or open (out), extend |
| 4 | Latin | pandus | bend, crooked, curved; bent, crooked |
| 5 | Latin | -us | suffix forming adjectives from nouns, verbs,... |
| 6 | Old Latin | -os | accusative masculine plural of -us |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | -os | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -ós | Creates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting... |
via Italian spassare
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | spassare | to entertain, amuse |
| 2 | Italian | passare | to pass; to exist; to there be; to take place; to... |
| 3 | Vulgar Latin | passare | to walk, pass; step, walk, pass; present active... |
| 4 | Latin | passus | spread out; dried; step |
| 5 | Latin | patior | I suffer, endure; I allow, acquiesce, permit,... |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | peh₁- | to hate, hurt |