Words that come from Latin -nus

400 words across 31 languages descend from Latin -nus — including journey, alternative, journal, maternal, alternate, journalist, tribunal, terrain.

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English (153)

Catalan (98)

Italian (36)

Latin (29)

French (24)

Sicilian (8)

Dutch (6)

Swedish (5)

Russian (5)

Turkish (5)

Middle French (4)

Hungarian (3)

Ido (3)

Old Occitan (2)

Cebuano (2)

Esperanto (2)

Tagalog (1)

Bulgarian (1)

Ukrainian (1)

Crimean Tatar (1)

Maltese (1)

Turkmen (1)

Friulian (1)

Albanian (1)

Lithuanian (1)

Greek (1)

Polish (1)

West Frisian (1)

Czech (1)

Georgian (1)

Danish (1)