Where does “limpa-para-brisas” come from?
limpa-para-brisas (Portuguese) comes from Portuguese para-brisas, from French pare-brise, from French parer, from Latin parāre, from Latin parō, from Latin pectus, from Proto-Italic pektos, from Proto-Indo-European peg- — Any of a series of water-soluble polymers, of...
limpa-para-brisas (Portuguese): windshield wiper
Definitions
- windshield wiper
Ancestry of “limpa-para-brisas”, step by step
limpa-para-brisas traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Portuguese para-brisas
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Portuguese | para-brisas | windshield, windscreen |
| 2 | French | pare-brise | windscreen (UK), windshield (US) |
| 3 | French | parer | to adorn; to bedeck; to fend off; to parry |
| 4 | Latin | parāre | — |
| 5 | Latin | parō | to arrange, order, contrive, design |
| 6 | Latin | pectus | chest, breast; heart, breast, as the seat of... |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | pektos | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | peg- | breast |
| 9 | English | polyethylene glycol | Any of a series of water-soluble polymers, of... |
via Portuguese limpar
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Portuguese | limpar | to clean; to remove all contents from a location... |
| 2 | Portuguese | -ar | forms the impersonal infinitive of... |
| 3 | Old Portuguese | -ar | — |
| 4 | Latin | -are | present active infinitive of -ō; -āre;... |
| 5 | Latin | -o | forms masculine agent nouns, positive and... |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | -ōd | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -éad | — |