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Where does “accentuare” come from?

accentuare (Latin) comes from Latin accentus, from Latin cantus, from Latin canere, from Latin caneo, from Latin -eo, from Proto-Italic -ēō, from Proto-Italic -ējō, from Proto-Indo-European -éh₁yeti — Creates transitive imperfective verbs from roots.

Ancestry of “accentuare”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinaccentusa blast, signal; accent, tone, accentuation;...
2Latincantussung, recited; sounded, blew; chanted
3Latincanerepresent active infinitive of canō; second-person...
4LatincaneoI am white, gray or hoary
5Latin-eoForms stative verbs from adjectives; dative...
6Proto-Italic-ēōForms stative verbs, indicating a state of being;...
7Proto-Italic-ējō—
8Proto-Indo-European-éh₁yetiThematicization of the athematic stative verbal...
9Proto-Indo-European-yetiCreates transitive imperfective verbs from roots

Words derived from “accentuare”

  • accentuate
  • overaccentuate
  • reaccentuate
  • accentuable
  • accentuator
  • accentuatus
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