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Where does “amortizar” come from?

amortizar (Spanish) comes from Middle French amortir, from Vulgar Latin admortire, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en, from Proto-Indo-European h₁én — in.

amortizar (Spanish): to amortize

Definitions

  1. to amortize

Ancestry of “amortizar”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Frenchamortirto bring to death
2Vulgar Latinadmortireto kill; present active infinitive of *admortēscō
3Latinad-to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it...
4Latinīn-—
5Latinîn—
6Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
7Proto-Italicenin
8Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin

Words derived from “amortizar”

  • amortizable
  • desamortizar
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁én →