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Where does “cacicato” come from?

cacicato (Spanish) comes from Spanish -ato, from Latin -ātus, from Proto-Italic -ātos, from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂tos.

cacicato (Spanish): chieftainship

Definitions

  1. chieftainship

Ancestry of “cacicato”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Spanish-atoforms an institution from a noun stem; forms the...
2Latin-ātus—
3Proto-Italic-ātos—
4Proto-Indo-European-éh₂tos—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂tos →