Where does “pantalla” come from?
pantalla (Spanish) comes from Catalan pantalla, from Catalan ventalla, from Catalan ventall, from Catalan ventar, from Catalan vent, from Old Occitan vent, from Latin ventus, from Proto-Italic wentos — to blow.
pantalla (Spanish): screen; display screen; lampshade
Definitions
- screen; display screen; lampshade
Ancestry of “pantalla”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Catalan | pantalla | screen; screen, display, monitor |
| 2 | Catalan | ventalla | — |
| 3 | Catalan | ventall | — |
| 4 | Catalan | ventar | — |
| 5 | Catalan | vent | wind; A casteller in the pinya standing between... |
| 6 | Old Occitan | vent | — |
| 7 | Latin | ventus | a wind; arrival |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | wentos | wind |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂wéh₁n̥ts | blowing; that which blows; the wind, air |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂wḗh₁ti | to blow |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂weh₁- | to blow |
Words derived from “pantalla”