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Where does “aplastamiento” come from?

aplastamiento (Spanish) comes from Spanish aplastar, from Spanish plasta, from Spanish plaste, from Ancient Greek πλαστή, from Ancient Greek πλαστός, from Ancient Greek -τός, from Proto-Indo-European -tós — Creates verbal adjectives from verb stems.

aplastamiento (Spanish): crush, squash, trample

Definitions

  1. crush, squash, trample

Ancestry of “aplastamiento”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Spanishaplastarto crush, smash, squash; to flatten; to squash
2Spanishplastalump, soft mass of matter; flattened object;...
3Spanishplaste—
4Ancient Greekπλαστή—
5Ancient Greekπλαστόςmolded, formed; formed, moulded; artificial;...
6Ancient Greek-τόςcreates verbal adjectives of possibility, either...
7Proto-Indo-European-tósCreates verbal adjectives from verb stems
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