Where does “bem-falante” come from?
bem-falante (Portuguese) comes from Portuguese falante, from Portuguese falar, from Old Portuguese falar, from Latin fābulor, from Latin fābula, from Latin -ulus, from Proto-Italic -olos, from Proto-Italic -elos — Forms agent nouns from verbal roots.
bem-falante (Portuguese): someone who speaks correctly and with fluency
Definitions
- someone who speaks correctly and with fluency
Ancestry of “bem-falante”, step by step
bem-falante traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Portuguese falante
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Portuguese | falante | speaker; talking |
| 2 | Portuguese | falar | to speak; to talk; to communicate by any means;... |
| 3 | Old Portuguese | falar | — |
| 4 | Latin | fābulor | to chat, converse, talk |
| 5 | Latin | fābula | discourse, narrative |
| 6 | Latin | -ulus | Used to form a diminutive of a noun, indicating... |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | -olos | — |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | -elos | Forms desubstantival and deadjectival diminutive nouns |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -e-lós | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -lós | Forms agent nouns from verbal roots |
via Portuguese bem
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Portuguese | bem | well; accurately; competently; well; fairly;... |
| 2 | Old Portuguese | ben | well |
| 3 | Latin | bene | well; properly, exactly; agreeably, favorably |
| 4 | Latin | bonus | good, honest, brave, noble, kind, pleasant;... |
| 5 | Old Latin | duenos | Alternative form of duonus |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | dwenos | good |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | dew- | to show favour, revere; to fail, to lag, to be... |