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Where does “vilifico” come from?

vilifico (Italian) comes from Italian vilificare, from Latin vilifico, from Latin vīlis, from Proto-Italic weslis, from Proto-Indo-European wes-li-s.

vilifico (Italian): first-person singular present indicative of...

Definitions

  1. first-person singular present indicative of...

Ancestry of “vilifico”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italianvilificareto vilify
2LatinvilificoI make of little value
3Latinvīlis—
4Proto-Italicweslis—
5Proto-Indo-Europeanwes-li-s—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European wes-li-s →