Where does “tormentare” come from?

tormentare (Italian) comes from Italian -are, from Latin -ō, from Proto-Indo-European -ō — Derives nouns from roots.

tormentare (Italian): to torment; to bother or pester

Definitions

  1. to torment; to bother or pester

Ancestry of “tormentare”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italian-areUsed, with a stem, to form the infinitive of most...
2Latin-ōsuffixed to nouns or adjectives. Originally a-stem nouns. Later extended to nouns with other stems. Forms regular first-conjugation verbs
3Proto-Indo-European-ōDerives nouns from roots

Words derived from “tormentare”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -ō →Every word from Latin -ō →Every word from Italian -are →
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