Where does “casca” come from?
casca (Portuguese) comes from Latin quassicare, from Latin quassico, from Latin -ico, from Latin -o, from Proto-Italic -ōd, from Proto-Indo-European -éad.
casca (Portuguese): skin; peel; rind; bark; shell
Definitions
- skin; peel; rind; bark; shell
Ancestry of “casca”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Latin | quassicare | present active infinitive of *quassicō |
| 2 | Latin | quassico | I hit, strike |
| 3 | Latin | -ico | forms regular first-conjugation verbs, sometimes... |
| 4 | Latin | -o | forms masculine agent nouns, positive and... |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | -ōd | — |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -éad | — |
Words derived from “casca”