Where does “colete” come from?
colete (Portuguese) comes from French Collet, from Italian colletto, from Italian collo, from Latin collum, from Latin -is, from Latin -a, from Proto-Italic -ā, from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂.
colete (Portuguese): waistcoat; Short for colete à prova de balas;...
Definitions
- waistcoat; Short for colete à prova de balas;...
Ancestry of “colete”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | French | Collet | — |
| 2 | Italian | colletto | collar |
| 3 | Italian | collo | neck; collar; parcel, package; luggage |
| 4 | Latin | collum | neck, throat; upper stem of a plant; servitude |
| 5 | Latin | -is | suffixed to the root of nouns in composition,... |
| 6 | Latin | -a | suffixed to the roots of verbs, forms agent... |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | -ā | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -éh₂ | — |