Where does “tatto” come from?

tatto (Italian) comes from Latin tāctus, from Latin -tus, from Proto-Italic -tus, from Proto-Indo-European -tus — Derives action nouns from verb roots.

tatto (Italian): touch; tact

Definitions

  1. touch; tact

Ancestry of “tatto”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latintāctustouched, having been touched, grasped, having been grasped
2Latin-tusForms the past participle of verbs; Forms...
3Proto-Italic-tus—
4Proto-Indo-European-tusDerives action nouns from verb roots

Words derived from “tatto”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tus →Every word from Latin -tus →Every word from Latin tāctus →