Where does “sicário” come from?

sicário (Portuguese) comes from Latin sīcārius, from Latin -ārius, from Proto-Italic *-āzios — Forms relational adjectives to nouns (and rarely numerals).

sicário (Portuguese): hitman

Definitions

  1. hitman

Ancestry of “sicário”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinsīcāriusassassin, contract killer, murderer
2Latin-āriuser
3Proto-Italic*-āziosForms relational adjectives to nouns (and rarely numerals)
Every word from Proto-Italic *-āzios →Every word from Latin -ārius →Every word from Latin sīcārius →