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Where does “passa” come from?

passa (Portuguese) comes from Latin passa, from Latin pandō, from Latin pandus, from Latin -us, from Old Latin -os, from Proto-Italic -os, from Proto-Indo-European -ós — Creates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting...

passa (Portuguese): shoo!; get away!; clear off!; dried fruit; raisin

Definitions

  1. shoo!; get away!; clear off!; dried fruit; raisin

Ancestry of “passa”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinpassainflection of passus: ## nominative/vocative...
2Latinpandō—
3Latinpandusbend, crooked, curved; bent, crooked
4Latin-ussuffix forming adjectives from nouns, verbs,...
5Old Latin-osaccusative masculine plural of -us
6Proto-Italic-os—
7Proto-Indo-European-ósCreates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting...
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