Where does “trattenere” come from?

trattenere (Italian) comes from Italian tra, from Latin intra, from Latin interus, from Proto-Indo-European h₁énteros, from Proto-Indo-European -teros — Contrastive or oppositional adjectival suffix.

trattenere (Italian): to hold (someone) (back); to restrain; to harness, especially to stop from running away

Definitions

  1. to hold (someone) (back); to restrain; to harness, especially to stop from running away

Ancestry of “trattenere”, step by step

trattenere traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Italian tra

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italiantrabetween; among; in
2Latinintrawithin; inside; during; less than
3Latininterus—
4Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énterosinside, within
5Proto-Indo-European-terosContrastive or oppositional adjectival suffix

via Italian tenere

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italiantenereto hold; to keep; to hold up; to sustain
2Latinteneōto hold, have; to grasp
3Proto-Italictenēōto hold
4Proto-Indo-Europeanten-to stretch, to extend

Words derived from “trattenere”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -teros →