Etymology

soldato

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Today it means: A member of the lowest tier of the Italian Mafia. Full definition →

Italian soldato ← Latin soldus ← Proto-Italic *soliðos
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*solh₂-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*solh₂-i-dʰ-o-s
  3. Proto-Italic*soliðos
  4. Latin(nummus) solidus
  5. Latinsoldus
  6. Italiansoldo
  7. Italiansoldare
  8. Italiansoldato
  9. English todaysoldato

Borrowed from Italian soldato (“soldier”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.