Where does “-ρός” come from?

-ρός (Ancient Greek) comes from Proto-Indo-European -rós — Forms adjectives from Caland system roots.

-ρός (Ancient Greek): able, tending to be X'ed (for a verb X); a suffix generally deriving adjectives from verbal stems

Definitions

  1. able, tending to be X'ed (for a verb X); a suffix generally deriving adjectives from verbal stems

Ancestry of “-ρός”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Indo-European-rósForms adjectives from Caland system roots

Words derived from “-ρός”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -rós →