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Where does “assunto” come from?

assunto (Portuguese) comes from Latin assumptus, from Latin assūmō, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en, from Proto-Indo-European h₁én — in.

assunto (Portuguese): subject, topic, theme; affair, thing

Definitions

  1. subject, topic, theme; affair, thing

Ancestry of “assunto”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinassumptusreceived, adopted, accepted
2Latinassūmō—
3Latinad-to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it...
4Latinīn-—
5Latinîn—
6Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
7Proto-Italicenin
8Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁én →