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Where does “противоракетный” come from?

противоракетный (Russian) comes from Russian раке́та, from Dutch raket, from German Rakete, from Italian rocchetta, from Italian rocchetto, from Italian -etto, from English -et, from Middle English -et.

противоракетный (Russian): antimissile

Definitions

  1. antimissile

Ancestry of “противоракетный”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Russianраке́та—
2Dutchraketrocket, missile; firework; a type of ice cream in...
3GermanRaketerocket, missile
4Italianrocchettaincendiary rocket
5Italianrocchettospool; reel; coil
6Italian-ettoAlterative suffix used to form melioratives,...
7English-etUsed to form diminutives, loosely construed
8Middle English-etForms diminutive nouns from nouns; in some words,...
9Old French-etUsed to form a diminutive, masculine noun;...
10Latin-ātus—
11Proto-Italic-ātos—
12Proto-Indo-European-éh₂tos—
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