Italian word essere comes from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ésti (To be.), Proto-Indo-European *h₁ésmi, Ancient Greek (to 1453) λόγῳ, Proto-Indo-European *bʰowHéyeti, Ancient Greek (to 1453) ὀυτ-
Dictionary entry | Language | Definition |
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*h₁ésti | Proto-Indo-European (ine) | To be. |
*h₁ésmi | Proto-Indo-European (ine) | |
λόγῳ | Ancient Greek (to 1453) (grc) | |
*bʰowHéyeti | Proto-Indo-European (ine) | |
ὀυτ- | Ancient Greek (to 1453) (grc) | |
*som | Proto-Italic (itc-pro) | |
*fuiō | Proto-Italic (itc-pro) | To become. |
*ezom | Proto-Italic (itc-pro) | Be. |
*ehmi | Proto-Hellenic (grk-pro) | To be. |
esom | Old Latin (itc-ola) | |
εἰμί | Ancient Greek (to 1453) (grc) | |
παλαιός | Ancient Greek (to 1453) (grc) | |
οὐσία | Ancient Greek (to 1453) (grc) | |
fui | Latin (lat) | |
*essere | Vulgar Latin (la-vul) | |
ester | Old French (842-ca. 1400) (fro) | To be. To stay; to remain. |
essere | Italian (it) | (auxiliary, used to form composite past tense of many intransitive verbs) to have (done something); to be in the state of having (done something); See Category:Italian verbs taking essere as auxiliary.. (impersonal, of a duration of time since an event) to have passed. (intransitive, indicating existence, identity, location, or state) to be Being. |