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Where does “uncino” come from?

uncino (Italian) comes from Latin uncīnus, from Latin uncus, from Latin -us, from Old Latin -os, from Proto-Italic -os, from Proto-Indo-European -ós — Creates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting...

uncino (Italian): hook; brace; first-person singular present...

Definitions

  1. hook; brace; first-person singular present...

Ancestry of “uncino”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinuncīnus—
2Latinuncushook, barb; a hook used to drag criminals by the...
3Latin-ussuffix forming adjectives from nouns, verbs,...
4Old Latin-osaccusative masculine plural of -us
5Proto-Italic-os—
6Proto-Indo-European-ósCreates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting...

Words derived from “uncino”

  • uncini
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