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Where does “identificar” come from?

identificar (Spanish) comes from Medieval Latin identificare, from Medieval Latin identicus, from Latin idem, from Proto-Italic izdim.

identificar (Spanish): to identify, to pinpoint

Definitions

  1. to identify, to pinpoint

Ancestry of “identificar”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Medieval Latinidentificare—
2Medieval Latinidenticusthe same, identical
3Latinidemthe same
4Proto-Italicizdim—
Every word from Proto-Italic izdim →