Where does “πτίλωσις” come from?
πτίλωσις (Ancient Greek) comes from Ancient Greek -σῐς, from Ancient Greek -τις, from Proto-Indo-European -tis — Derives abstract/action nouns from verb roots.
πτίλωσις (Ancient Greek): plumage; a disease of the eyelids in which their...
Definitions
- plumage; a disease of the eyelids in which their...
Ancestry of “πτίλωσις”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Ancient Greek | -σῐς | "suffix forming nouns" |
| 2 | Ancient Greek | -τις | Earlier form of -σις , retained after dentals δ,... |
| 3 | Proto-Indo-European | -tis | Derives abstract/action nouns from verb roots |