Where does “mesa-tenístico” come from?

mesa-tenístico (Portuguese) comes from Portuguese mesa, from Old Portuguese mesa, from Vulgar Latin mesa, from Latin mēnsa, from Latin mēnsus, from Latin -tus, from Proto-Italic -tus, from Proto-Indo-European -tus — Derives action nouns from verb roots.

mesa-tenístico (Portuguese): of table tennis

Definitions

  1. of table tennis

Ancestry of “mesa-tenístico”, step by step

mesa-tenístico traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Portuguese mesa

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Portuguesemesatable; meal, food; mesa
2Old Portuguesemesatable
3Vulgar LatinmesaAlternative form of mēnsa
4Latinmēnsaa table
5Latinmēnsushaving measured, estimated
6Latin-tusForms the past participle of verbs; Forms...
7Proto-Italic-tus
8Proto-Indo-European-tusDerives action nouns from verb roots

via Portuguese tenístico

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Portuguesetenístico
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tus