talio.
retaliation;
Meaning & usage
punishment equal to the injury sustained; retaliation
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *to- Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- Proto-Indo-European *-is Proto-Indo-European *h₂élis Proto-Indo-European *th₂élis? Proto-Italic *tālis Latin tālis Proto-Indo-European *-ōder. Proto-Indo-European *-Hōder.? Latin -ō Latin -iō Latin talio From tālis (“such”) + -iō.
to cut
to prune (cut a shoot)
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Latin tālea Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin talio From tālea (“cutting from a plant”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix). Attested from the sixth century CE, while a prefixed intertāliō is attested earlier in Nonius.
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