Where does “transustanziare” come from?
transustanziare (Italian) comes from Medieval Latin transubstantiare, from Latin transubstantio, from Latin substantia, from Latin substāns, from Latin substō, from Latin sub, from Proto-Italic supo, from Proto-Indo-European upó.
transustanziare (Italian): To transubstantiate
Definitions
- To transubstantiate
Ancestry of “transustanziare”, step by step
transustanziare traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Medieval Latin transubstantiare
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Medieval Latin | transubstantiare | present active infinitive of trānsubstantiō |
| 2 | Latin | transubstantio | I transubstantiate |
| 3 | Latin | substantia | substance, essence, material, contents; fortune,... |
| 4 | Latin | substāns | — |
| 5 | Latin | substō | to hold out, to stand firm |
| 6 | Latin | sub | under, beneath; behind; at the feet of |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | supo | under |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | upó | under, below |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | h₃ewp- | — |
via Latin trānsubstantiō
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | trānsubstantiō | to transubstantiate |
| 2 | Latin | -ō | suffixed to nouns or adjectives. Originally a-stem nouns. Later extended to nouns with other stems. Forms regular first-conjugation verbs |
| 3 | Proto-Indo-European | -ō | Derives nouns from roots |