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Where does “Φλάβιος” come from?

Φλάβιος (Ancient Greek) comes from Latin Flavius, from Latin flāvus, from Latin palpus, from Latin -us, from Old Latin -os, from Proto-Italic -os, from Proto-Indo-European -ós — Creates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting...

Ancestry of “Φλάβιος”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1LatinFlaviusof the Flavian gens
2Latinflāvus—
3Latinpalpuspalm of the hand; feeler
4Latin-ussuffix forming adjectives from nouns, verbs,...
5Old Latin-osaccusative masculine plural of -us
6Proto-Italic-os—
7Proto-Indo-European-ósCreates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting...
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