Where does “squarciare” come from?
squarciare (Italian) comes from Vulgar Latin exquartiare, from Latin quartus, from Latin quattuor, from Latin caput, from Proto-Italic kaput, from Proto-Indo-European káput, from Proto-Indo-European kap- — to seize, hold.
squarciare (Italian): to rip; to split
Ancestry of “squarciare”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Vulgar Latin | exquartiare | — |
| 2 | Latin | quartus | fourth, the ordinal number after "tertius" and... |
| 3 | Latin | quattuor | four; 4 |
| 4 | Latin | caput | head; headlike protuberance on an organ or body... |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | kaput | head |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | káput | head |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | kap- | to seize, hold |
Words derived from “squarciare”