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Where does “rasteiro” come from?

rasteiro (Portuguese) comes from Portuguese Rasto, from Latin rāstrum, from Latin -trum, from Proto-Italic -trom, from Proto-Indo-European -trom, from Proto-Indo-European -tḗr — Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone...

rasteiro (Portuguese): crawling; creeping; ground-level

Definitions

  1. crawling; creeping; ground-level

Ancestry of “rasteiro”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1PortugueseRasto—
2Latinrāstrum—
3Latin-trumforming instrument nouns
4Proto-Italic-trom—
5Proto-Indo-European-tromForms nouns denoting a tool or instrument
6Proto-Indo-European-tḗrDerives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone...

Words derived from “rasteiro”

  • rasteira
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