Where does “speċifikament” come from?
speċifikament (Maltese) comes from Italian specificamente, from Italian specifico, from Late Latin specificus, from Latin faciō, from Latin -torium, from Latin -tōrius, from Latin -tor, from Proto-Italic -tōr.
speċifikament (Maltese): specifically
Definitions
- specifically
Ancestry of “speċifikament”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | specificamente | specifically |
| 2 | Italian | specifico | specific; first-person singular present... |
| 3 | Late Latin | specificus | specific, particular |
| 4 | Latin | faciō | to do |
| 5 | Latin | -torium | nominative neuter singular of -tōrius; accusative... |
| 6 | Latin | -tōrius | ory |
| 7 | Latin | -tor | -er |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | -tōr | Forms agent nouns to verb stems |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -tōr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -tor-s | — |