Where does “retaliare” come from?
retaliare (Latin) comes from Latin taliō, from Latin tālis, from Proto-Indo-European tód, from Proto-Indo-European to-, from Proto-Indo-European só — this; that.
Ancestry of “retaliare”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Latin | taliō | — |
| 2 | Latin | tālis | — |
| 3 | Proto-Indo-European | tód | demonstrative pronoun; that; it |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | to- | it; that; the, that |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | só | this; that |