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Where does “torpēdō” come from?

torpēdō (Latin) comes from Latin torpeō, from Proto-Indo-European terp- — to satisfy.

Ancestry of “torpēdō”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latintorpeō—
2Proto-Indo-Europeanterp-to satisfy
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