Where does “sicut” come from?

sicut (Latin) comes from Latin sīc, from Latin sice, from Latin sī, from Proto-Italic sei, from Proto-Indo-European só — this; that.

sicut (Latin): as, just as, like

Definitions

  1. as, just as, like

Ancestry of “sicut”, step by step

sicut traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Latin sīc

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinsīcyes, indeed (If answering a question)
2Latinsice—
3Latinsīif, supposing that
4Proto-Italicseiso, thus
5Proto-Indo-Europeansóthis; that

via Latin Ut

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1LatinUthow? in what way?
Every word from Proto-Indo-European só →Every word from Proto-Italic sei →Every word from Latin sī →