Where does “cebar” come from?
cebar (Spanish) comes from Latin cibō, from Latin -ō, from Proto-Indo-European -ō — Derives nouns from roots.
cebar (Spanish): to bait; to fatten, feed; to charge, load
Definitions
- to bait; to fatten, feed; to charge, load
Ancestry of “cebar”, step by step
cebar traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Latin cibō
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Latin | cibō | to give fodder to animals, to fatten, fodder |
| 2 | Latin | -ō | suffixed to nouns or adjectives. Originally a-stem nouns. Later extended to nouns with other stems. Forms regular first-conjugation verbs |
| 3 | Proto-Indo-European | -ō | Derives nouns from roots |
via Catalan ceba
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Catalan | ceba | onion |
| 2 | Latin | cēpa | onion |
Words derived from “cebar”