Where does “autostrada” come from?
autostrada (Serbo-Croatian) comes from Italian strada, from Latin strāta, from Latin strātus, from Latin sternō, from Proto-Italic stornō, from Proto-Indo-European str̥-n-h₃-, from Proto-Indo-European sterh₃-, from Proto-Indo-European ster- — sterile, infertile.
autostrada (Serbo-Croatian): highway
Ancestry of “autostrada”, step by step