Where does “radioteatro” come from?
radioteatro (Spanish) comes from Italian radio, from English radio, from English radiotelegraphy, from English telegraphy, from English Telegraph, from French télégraphe, from French télé-, from Ancient Greek τῆλε.
radioteatro (Spanish): radio drama
Definitions
- radio drama
Ancestry of “radioteatro”, step by step
radioteatro traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via Italian radio
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | radio | radius; Obsolete form of raggio; radium |
| 2 | English | radio | The technology that allows for the transmission... |
| 3 | English | radiotelegraphy | The process and techniques of sending telegrams... |
| 4 | English | telegraphy | communication at a distance by means of the... |
| 5 | English | Telegraph | any process for transmitting arbitrarily long messages over a long distance using a symbolic code |
| 6 | French | télégraphe | telegraph |
| 7 | French | télé- | tele- |
| 8 | Ancient Greek | τῆλε | far off, afar, far away |
| 9 | Latin | commūnicāre | — |
| 10 | Latin | commūnis | common, commonplace, ordinary, general, universal, shared, shared alike, of both sides, belonging to two or more together |
| 11 | Old Latin | com(m)oinis | — |
| 12 | Proto-Italic | kommoinis | common |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱom-moy-ni- | held in common |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 15 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 16 | Middle English | kyt | — |
via Italian teatro
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | teatro | theatre, theater; movie theater, cinema; drama |
| 2 | Latin | theātrum | A theatre or theater, playhouse; stage |
| 3 | Ancient Greek | θέατρον | theatre, gathering place; play, spectacle |
| 4 | Ancient Greek | -τρον | Forms instrument nouns |
| 5 | Proto-Hellenic | -tron | Forms instrument nouns from verb stems |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -trom | Forms nouns denoting a tool or instrument |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -tḗr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
via Spanish radio
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spanish | radio | radio; radius; radium |
| 2 | Spanish | radiodifusora | female equivalent of radiodifusor |