Where does “di-tao” come from?
di-tao (Tagalog) comes from Tagalog di-, from Tagalog dî, from English Dee, from English do, from English ditto, from Italian ditto, from Italian detto, from Latin dictus — shoe.
di-tao (Tagalog): nonhuman
Definitions
- nonhuman
Ancestry of “di-tao”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tagalog | di- | non-; un-; de |
| 2 | Tagalog | dî | no, not; no |
| 3 | English | Dee | River Dee |
| 4 | English | do | A syntactic marker |
| 5 | English | ditto | That which was stated before, the aforesaid, the... |
| 6 | Italian | ditto | — |
| 7 | Italian | detto | past participle of dire; past participle of... |
| 8 | Latin | dictus | said, uttered; mentioned, spoken, having been... |
| 9 | Latin | dīcō | to say, talk, speak, utter, mention |
| 10 | Latin | -tiō | tion, -ation, -ing |
| 11 | Latin | dissertātiō | (spoken) dissertation, discourse, disquisition |
| 12 | Latin | dissertus | arranged, disposed; explained |
| 13 | Latin | disserere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 14 | Latin | dis- | asunder, apart, in two; reversal, removal;... |
| 15 | Latin | calceus | shoe |