Where does “contraste” come from?
contraste (Middle French) comes from Italian contrasto, from Italian contrastare, from Latin contrāstāre, from Latin contrā, from Latin ubī, from Latin cubī, from Proto-Italic *kʷuðei — where.
Ancestry of “contraste”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | contrasto | obstacle, hindrance; quarrel, argument, dispute;... |
| 2 | Italian | contrastare | to oppose, to impede, to hinder; to quarrel, to... |
| 3 | Latin | contrāstāre | — |
| 4 | Latin | contrā | against |
| 5 | Latin | ubī | where? in what place?, in which place? |
| 6 | Latin | cubī | — |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | *kʷuðei | where |