Where does “vitale” come from?

vitale (Italian) comes from Italian vita, from Latin vīta, from Latin vīvō, from Proto-Italic gʷīwō, from Proto-Indo-European gʷíh₃weti, from Proto-Indo-European gʷih₃wós, from Proto-Indo-European gʷeih₃w- — to live.

vitale (Italian): life; vital, living

Definitions

  1. life; vital, living

Ancestry of “vitale”, step by step

vitale traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Italian vita

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italianvitalife; waist
2Latinvītalife
3Latinvīvōto live
4Proto-Italicgʷīwōlive, be alive
5Proto-Indo-Europeangʷíh₃wetito live, to be alive
6Proto-Indo-Europeangʷih₃wósalive, living
7Proto-Indo-Europeangʷeih₃w-to live

via Latin vītālis

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinvītālisof or pertaining to life; vital, life-giving
2Latin-ālis—
3Proto-Italic-ālisforms relational adjectives

Words derived from “vitale”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European gʷeih₃w- →