Where does “-étto” come from?

-étto (Ligurian) comes from Latin -ittum, from Latin -ittus, from Proto-Italic -tos, from Proto-Indo-European -tós — Creates verbal adjectives from verb stems.

-étto (Ligurian): Used to form diminutives of nouns

Definitions

  1. Used to form diminutives of nouns

Ancestry of “-étto”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latin-ittum—
2Latin-ittusdiminutive suffix, used to create nouns
3Proto-Italic-tosCreates verbal adjectives from verb stems
4Proto-Indo-European-tósCreates verbal adjectives from verb stems

Words derived from “-étto”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tós →Every word from Latin -ittus →Every word from Latin -ittum →