Where does “bevanda” come from?
bevanda (Serbo-Croatian) comes from Italian bevanda, from Vulgar Latin bibanda, from Latin bibenda, from Latin bibendus, from Latin bibō, from Latin -ilis, from Proto-Italic -elis, from Proto-Indo-European -elis — Forms agent nouns from verbal roots.
bevanda (Serbo-Croatian): wine diluted with water
Ancestry of “bevanda”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Italian | bevanda | beverage, drink |
| 2 | Vulgar Latin | bibanda | — |
| 3 | Latin | bibenda | nominative feminine singular of bibendus;... |
| 4 | Latin | bibendus | which is to be drunk |
| 5 | Latin | bibō | — |
| 6 | Latin | -ilis | -ile |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | -elis | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -elis | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -lós | Forms agent nouns from verbal roots |