Where does “promissa” come from?
promissa (Late Latin) comes from Latin promissum, from Latin promissus, from Latin prōmittō, from Latin prō, from Latin ratus, from Latin rēōr, from Proto-Italic rēōr, from Proto-Indo-European h₂reh₁- — to fit, to fix, to put together.
promissa (Late Latin): promise; nominative plural of prōmissum;...
Definitions
- promise; nominative plural of prōmissum;...
Ancestry of “promissa”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | promissum | promise; accusative supine of prōmittō |
| 2 | Latin | promissus | promised |
| 3 | Latin | prōmittō | to send forth |
| 4 | Latin | prō | for |
| 5 | Latin | ratus | considered, having been considered; established,... |
| 6 | Latin | rēōr | to reckon, calculate |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | rēōr | to reckon, to calculate; to think, to deem, to... |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂reh₁- | to think, reason; to arrange |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂er- | to fit, to fix, to put together |