myEtymology.com: Italian etymology of sovrappasso

Etymology of the Italian word sovrappasso

the Italian word sovrappasso

derived from the Italian word passo

derived from the Italian word passare

derived from the Vulgar Latin word passare

derived from the Late Latin word passus (spread out; outstretched; dried; step, pace)

derived from the Latin word pati (suffer; allow; undergo)

derived from the Latin word pandere (spread out [passis manibus => with hands outstretched])

derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *petə-

using the Italian prefix sovra-