köken: From Old Italian risco, from Arabic رزق (rizq, “blessing, sustenance, i.e., unanticipated profit”) via Sabir. Alternatively, possibly from Vulgar Latin *resecum or deverbal from resecare, via risicare and later riscare, rischiare, both from Latin resecō (“to cut off”).
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is- Proto-Italic *dis- Latin dis- Proto-Indo-European *krey-der. Proto-Italic *krinō Latin cernō Latin discernō Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Italic *-mn̥ Latin -men Latin discrimen From discernō (“to set apart, differentiate, decide”) + -men (noun-forming suffix). First attested (indirectly) in the fragments of satirist…
aile: discrīminō
Bīna bonī atque malī glomerat discrīmina sordēns
Vulnerārī, vexārī, bella inter sē gerere furiālium memorantur ardōre discrīminum.
köken: From Dutch risico (“risk”), from Italian risico, variant of risk (whence Modern Italian rischio and rischiare (“to run into danger”). Cognate with Afrikaans risiko, Danish risiko.