Where does “repike” come from?
repike (Tagalog) comes from Spanish repique, from Spanish repicar, from Spanish picar, from Spanish pico, from Old Spanish bico, from Latin beccus, from Latin -āceus, from Latin -āx — Creates adjectives from noun or verb stems.
repike (Tagalog): continuous ringing of bells; peal
Definitions
- continuous ringing of bells; peal
Ancestry of “repike”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spanish | repique | ring, peal, chime |
| 2 | Spanish | repicar | to chop up; to peal, ring |
| 3 | Spanish | picar | to itch; to sting; to chop |
| 4 | Spanish | pico | beak; sharp point; pick, pickaxe |
| 5 | Old Spanish | bico | — |
| 6 | Latin | beccus | beak, bill |
| 7 | Latin | -āceus | aceous; resembling, having the nature of, forming, belonging to |
| 8 | Latin | -āx | ish, -y |
| 9 | Latin | -ium | Suffix used to form abstract nouns, sometimes... |
| 10 | Latin | -ius | forming adjectives from nouns; nominative neuter... |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | -jōs | Forms comparative adjectives |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | -yós | Creates adjectives from noun or verb stems |