Where does “trovarti” come from?
trovarti (Italian) comes from Italian trovare, from Old Occitan trobar, from Vulgar Latin tropare, from Latin tropus, from Ancient Greek τρόπος, from Ancient Greek τροπή, from Ancient Greek -ή, from Ancient Greek -ᾱ.
Ancestry of “trovarti”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | trovare | to find; to visit; to contact or get hold of |
| 2 | Old Occitan | trobar | to find |
| 3 | Vulgar Latin | tropare | to compose; present active infinitive of *tropō |
| 4 | Latin | tropus | a figurative use of a word, a trope; a way of... |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | τρόπος | a turn, way, manner, style; a trope or figure of... |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | τροπή | a turning; turning away the enemy, a rout;... |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | -ή | suffix of feminine nouns in the [[Appendix:Ancient Greek first declension |
| 8 | Ancient Greek | -ᾱ | nominal suffix |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -éh₂ | — |