Where does “raffinament” come from?
raffinament (Maltese) comes from Italian raffinamento, from Italian raffinare, from Italian ra-, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en — in.
raffinament (Maltese): refining
Definitions
- refining
Ancestry of “raffinament”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | raffinamento | refining |
| 2 | Italian | raffinare | To refine |
| 3 | Italian | ra- | Used in the formation of verbs with an intensive... |
| 4 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 5 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 6 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 7 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |