Where does “tressette” come from?

tressette (Italian) comes from Italian tre, from Latin trēs, from Proto-Italic trēs, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.

tressette (Italian): An Italian card game with many local variants

Definitions

  1. An Italian card game with many local variants

Ancestry of “tressette”, step by step

tressette traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Italian tre

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italiantrethree
2Latintrēsthree; 3
3Proto-Italictrēsthree
4Proto-Indo-European*tréyes—

via Italian sette

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italiansetteseven; plural of setta
2LatinSeptemseven; 7
3Proto-Italicseptemseven
4Proto-Indo-Europeanseptḿ̥seven
Every word from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes →Every word from Proto-Italic trēs →Every word from Latin trēs →