Where does “voltafaccia” come from?
voltafaccia (Italian) comes from Italian faccia, from Late Latin facia, from Latin faciēs, from Latin faciō, from Latin -torium, from Latin -tōrius, from Latin -tor, from Proto-Italic -tōr.
voltafaccia (Italian): volte-face, about turn, about-face
Definitions
- volte-face, about turn, about-face
Ancestry of “voltafaccia”, step by step
voltafaccia traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Italian faccia
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | faccia | face; countenance, expression, face; side |
| 2 | Late Latin | facia | — |
| 3 | Latin | faciēs | make, form, shape, figure, configuration |
| 4 | Latin | faciō | to do |
| 5 | Latin | -torium | nominative neuter singular of -tōrius; accusative... |
| 6 | Latin | -tōrius | ory |
| 7 | Latin | -tor | -er |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | -tōr | Forms agent nouns to verb stems |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -tōr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -tor-s | — |
via Italian voltare
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | voltare | to turn; to flip; to make turn; to rotate |
| 2 | Vulgar Latin | *volvitare | — |
| 3 | Latin | volvere | third-person plural perfect active indicative of... |
| 4 | Latin | volvo | I roll, tumble |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | welw- | hair, wool, grass, ear , forest; to turn, wind,... |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | wēlH- | to roll, to undulate |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | welH- | to turn, to wind |