Where does “zampettare” come from?

zampettare (Italian) comes from Italian -are, from Latin -ō, from Proto-Indo-European -ō — Derives nouns from roots.

zampettare (Italian): to scamper; to run away

Definitions

  1. to scamper; to run away

Ancestry of “zampettare”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italian-areUsed, with a stem, to form the infinitive of most...
2Latin-ōsuffixed to nouns or adjectives. Originally a-stem nouns. Later extended to nouns with other stems. Forms regular first-conjugation verbs
3Proto-Indo-European-ōDerives nouns from roots

Words derived from “zampettare”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -ō →Every word from Latin -ō →Every word from Italian -are →
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