The story
- Italian · borrowed fromarrivederci“goodbye”
- English todayarrivederci
From Italian arrivederci (“goodbye”), from a (“to”) with rivederci (“to see each other again”), from the infinitive rivedersi (“to see each other again, to meet again”), from ri- (“re-”) with the infinitive vedersi (“to see each other”), from vedere (“to see”) with the variable pronoun si (“oneself; one another”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.