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Where does “salpicadura” come from?

salpicadura (Spanish) comes from Spanish salpicar, from Spanish picar, from Spanish pico, from Old Spanish bico, from Latin beccus, from Latin -āceus, from Latin -āx, from Latin -ium — Creates adjectives from noun or verb stems.

salpicadura (Spanish): fleck; sprinkling, splashing

Definitions

  1. fleck; sprinkling, splashing

Ancestry of “salpicadura”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Spanishsalpicarto splatter, splash; to sprinkle, scatter
2Spanishpicarto itch; to sting; to chop
3Spanishpicobeak; sharp point; pick, pickaxe
4Old Spanishbico—
5Latinbeccusbeak, bill
6Latin-āceus—
7Latin-āx—
8Latin-iumSuffix used to form abstract nouns, sometimes...
9Latin-iusforming adjectives from nouns; nominative neuter...
10Proto-Italic-jōsForms comparative adjectives
11Proto-Indo-European-yósCreates adjectives from noun or verb stems
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