Words that come from Proto-Italic “-tus”

400 words across 27 languages descend from Proto-Italic -tus — including spirit, pulse, exit, applause, advent, literate, habitus, hiatus.

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Latin (261)

English (36)

Italian (32)

French (18)

Catalan (9)

Middle French (6)

Friulian (5)

Ladin (4)

Asturian (3)

Esperanto (3)

Old Occitan (2)

Irish (2)

Swedish (2)

Old Irish (2)

Dutch (2)

Icelandic (2)

Lombard (1)

Luxembourgish (1)

Old Spanish (1)

Neapolitan (1)

Volapük (1)

Crimean Tatar (1)

Sicilian (1)

Danish (1)

Hungarian (1)

Russian (1)

Polish (1)