Where does “maltratar” come from?
maltratar (Spanish) comes from Spanish tratar, from Latin tractāre, from Latin tractō, from Latin -tō, from Latin -tus, from Proto-Italic -tus, from Proto-Indo-European -tus — Derives action nouns from verb roots.
maltratar (Spanish): to mistreat
Definitions
- to mistreat
Ancestry of “maltratar”, step by step
maltratar traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Spanish tratar
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spanish | tratar | to treat; to address, to refer to as; to deal... |
| 2 | Latin | tractāre | — |
| 3 | Latin | tractō | to tug, drag or haul |
| 4 | Latin | -tō | Forms here |
| 5 | Latin | -tus | Forms the past participle of verbs; Forms... |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | -tus | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -tus | Derives action nouns from verb roots |
via Spanish mal
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spanish | mal | Apocopic form of malo bad; evil; amiss, awry,... |
| 2 | Latin | male | badly; wrongly; cruelly, wickedly |
| 3 | Latin | malus | unpleasant, distressing, painful, nasty, bad;... |
| 4 | Ancient Greek | μηλέα | apple tree |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | μῆλον | apple; any fruit from a tree; a woman's breast |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)meh₁l- | small animal”; small animal |