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Where does “assento” come from?

assento (Portuguese) comes from Portuguese assentar, from Old Portuguese assentar, from Latin adsedentāre, from Latin Ad, from Latin illic, from Latin ille, from Latin olle, from Proto-Italic *olnos.

assento (Portuguese): seat, bottom, buttocks; first-person singular...

Definitions

  1. seat, bottom, buttocks; first-person singular...

Ancestry of “assento”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Portugueseassentarto seat; to register; to settle; to determine; to...
2Old Portugueseassentar—
3Latinadsedentāre—
4LatinAd—
5Latinilliche, she, it, yonder, that, overthere; in that...
6Latinillethat; those; "; demonstrative pronoun "; that...
7LatinolleArchaic form of ille
8Proto-Italic*olnos—
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