Where does “suerte” come from?
suerte (Spanish) comes from Old Spanish suerte, from Latin sortem, from Latin sors, from Latin legere, from Latin legō, from Latin lēx, from Proto-Italic lēg-, from Proto-Indo-European leǵ-s — to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to...
suerte (Spanish): luck, fortune; lot, fate; sort, kind, type
Definitions
- luck, fortune; lot, fate; sort, kind, type
Ancestry of “suerte”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Old Spanish | suerte | — |
| 2 | Latin | sortem | accusative singular of sors |
| 3 | Latin | sors | anything used to determine chances, lot; a... |
| 4 | Latin | legere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 5 | Latin | legō | — |
| 6 | Latin | lēx | — |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | lēg- | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | leǵ-s | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | leǵ- | to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to... |
Words derived from “suerte”