Where does “spaventoso” come from?
spaventoso (Italian) comes from Italian spavento, from Italian spaventare, from Vulgar Latin expaventare, from Classical Latin expaveō, from Latin pavor, from Latin -or, from Proto-Italic -ōs, from Proto-Indo-European -ōs — Creates action nouns or result nouns from verbs;...
spaventoso (Italian): frightful, dreadful, frightening, terrible,...
Definitions
- frightful, dreadful, frightening, terrible,...
Ancestry of “spaventoso”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Italian | spavento | fright, fear, scare, terror; first-person... |
| 2 | Italian | spaventare | to frighten, scare, spook |
| 3 | Vulgar Latin | expaventare | present active infinitive of *expaventō |
| 4 | Classical Latin | expaveō | — |
| 5 | Latin | pavor | The act of trembling, quaking, throbbing or... |
| 6 | Latin | -or | used to form a third-declension masculine... |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | -ōs | Creates masculine action nouns or result nouns... |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -ōs | Creates masculine and feminine action nouns or... |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -oss | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -os | Creates action nouns or result nouns from verbs;... |
Words derived from “spaventoso”