Where does “rompeolas” come from?
rompeolas (Spanish) comes from Spanish ola, from Latin undula, from Latin -ulus, from Proto-Italic -olos, from Proto-Italic -elos, from Proto-Indo-European -e-lós, from Proto-Indo-European -lós — Forms agent nouns from verbal roots.
rompeolas (Spanish): breakwater
Definitions
- breakwater
Ancestry of “rompeolas”, step by step
rompeolas traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Spanish ola
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spanish | ola | wave; sudden appearance of a large amount of... |
| 2 | Latin | undula | wavelet; vocative singular of undula; ablative... |
| 3 | Latin | -ulus | Used to form a diminutive of a noun, indicating... |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | -olos | — |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | -elos | Forms desubstantival and deadjectival diminutive nouns |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -e-lós | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -lós | Forms agent nouns from verbal roots |
via Spanish romper
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spanish | romper | to break; to break up, terminate; to begin to do... |
| 2 | Old Spanish | romper | — |
| 3 | Latin | rumpō | to break, burst, tear, rend, rupture; break asunder, force open |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | Hrunépti | to be breaking |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | Hrewp- | to break, tear |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | Hrew- | to tear out, dig out, open, acquire |