Where does “tendicollo” come from?

tendicollo (Italian) comes from Italian collo, from Latin collum, from Latin -is, from Latin -a, from Proto-Italic -ā, from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂.

tendicollo (Italian): collar stud

Definitions

  1. collar stud

Ancestry of “tendicollo”, step by step

tendicollo traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Italian collo

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italiancolloneck; collar; parcel, package; luggage
2Latincollumneck, throat; upper stem of a plant; servitude
3Latin-issuffixed to the root of nouns in composition,...
4Latin-asuffixed to the roots of verbs, forms agent...
5Proto-ItalicForms masculine agent nouns from prefixed or compounded bases
6Proto-Indo-European-éh₂

via Italian tendere

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italiantendereto tighten; to stretch; to crane
2Latintendōto stretch, stretch out, distend, extend
3Ancient Greekτένωνtendon, sinew
4Proto-Indo-Europeanten-to stretch, to extend
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂
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