Where does “procreatio” come from?
procreatio (Latin) comes from Latin procreare, from Latin prō-, from Proto-Italic *pro-, from Proto-Indo-European pro-, from Proto-Indo-European por-, from Proto-Indo-European per-, from Proto-Indo-European pr̥tós — passed , crossed.
procreatio (Latin): generation
Definitions
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Ancestry of “procreatio”, step by step
procreatio traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Latin procreare
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | procreare | present active infinitive of prōcreō;... |
| 2 | Latin | prō- | forward direction, forward movement |
| 3 | Proto-Italic | *pro- | pro- see the Latin entry for further meanings |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | pro- | toward, forward |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | por- | to give birth; forward, through; going, passage |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | per- | before, in front; first; to go through |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | pr̥tós | passed , crossed |
via Latin procreo
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | procreo | I beget, generate, procreate, produce |
| 2 | Latin | creō | to create, to give existence to, to form, to make, to produce, to originate out of other materials or out of nihility (transitively) |
| 3 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱer- | to grow, to make grow, to nourish; to plait,... |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | kr̥- | to turn, to bend |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | ker- | army |