putto

The story

1. Italian · borrowed fromputti
2. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*peh₂w-“few, little; smallness”
3. Proto-Italic · derived from*puweros
4. Latin · derived fromputus“boy”
5. Italian · borrowed fromputto“cupid, putto; boy”
6. English todayputto

Borrowed from Italian putto (“cupid, putto; boy”), from Latin putus (“boy”), a variant of pūsus (“(little) boy”), from puer (“boy, lad; child”), from Proto-Italic *puweros, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂w- (“few, little; smallness”). The plural form putti is also borrowed from Italian putti.

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