Where does “spiċċa” come from?

spiċċa (Maltese) comes from Italian spicciare, from Italian -are, from Latin -ō, from Proto-Indo-European -ō — Derives nouns from roots.

spiċċa (Maltese): to finish

Definitions

  1. to finish

Ancestry of “spiċċa”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italianspicciareto complete, finish off; to attend to
2Italian-areUsed, with a stem, to form the infinitive of most...
3Latin-ōsuffixed to nouns or adjectives. Originally a-stem nouns. Later extended to nouns with other stems. Forms regular first-conjugation verbs
4Proto-Indo-European-ōDerives nouns from roots

Words derived from “spiċċa”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -ō →Every word from Latin -ō →Every word from Italian -are →