Where does “videocasetero” come from?

videocasetero (Spanish) comes from Spanish videocasete, from Spanish casete, from French cassette, from Middle French cassette, from Middle French -ette, from Old French -eté, from Latin -ittus, from Proto-Italic -tos — Creates verbal adjectives from verb stems.

videocasetero (Spanish): VCR

Definitions

  1. VCR

Ancestry of “videocasetero”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Spanishvideocasetevideotape
2Spanishcasetecassette
3Frenchcassettetreasure box; small box; cassette tape
4Middle Frenchcassette
5Middle French-ette-et, -ette
6Old French-etévariant of -té
7Latin-ittusdiminutive suffix, used to create nouns
8Proto-Italic-tosCreates verbal adjectives from verb stems
9Proto-Indo-European-tósCreates verbal adjectives from verb stems
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tós