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Where does “modelirati” come from?

modelirati (Serbo-Croatian) comes from Serbo-Croatian mòdel, from French modèle, from Middle French modelle, from Old Italian modello, from Vulgar Latin modellus, from Latin modulus, from Latin -ulus, from Proto-Italic -olos — Forms agent nouns from verbal roots.

modelirati (Serbo-Croatian): to model, fashion

Definitions

  1. to model, fashion

Ancestry of “modelirati”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Serbo-Croatianmòdel—
2Frenchmodèlemodel, example, design; template; first-person...
3Middle Frenchmodelletemplate; model; model; replica; reconstruction
4Old Italianmodello—
5Vulgar Latinmodellus—
6Latinmodulusa small measure or interval; a module; a water...
7Latin-ulusUsed to form a diminutive of a noun, indicating...
8Proto-Italic-olos—
9Proto-Italic-elos—
10Proto-Indo-European-e-lós—
11Proto-Indo-European-lósForms agent nouns from verbal roots
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