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Where does “assassinar” come from?

assassinar (Portuguese) comes from Italian assassinare, from Italian -are, from Latin -ō, from Proto-Indo-European -ō — Derives nouns from roots.

assassinar (Portuguese): to kill, murder; to :assassinate

Definitions

  1. to kill, murder; to :assassinate

Ancestry of “assassinar”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italianassassinareto murder, to kill, to assassinate, to massacre
2Italian-areUsed, with a stem, to form the infinitive of most...
3Latin-ō—
4Proto-Indo-European-ōDerives nouns from roots
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