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Where does “suture” come from?

suture (Italian) comes from Italian sutura, from Latin sūtūra, from Latin suō, from Proto-Italic sūō, from Proto-Indo-European *syewH-.

suture (Italian): plural of sutura

Definitions

  1. plural of sutura

Ancestry of “suture”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italiansuturasuture, stitch; suture
2Latinsūtūra—
3Latinsuō—
4Proto-Italicsūōsew, stitch
5Proto-Indo-European*syewH-—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European *syewH- →