Where does “-è” come from?

-è (Catalan) comes from Latin -ēnus, from Proto-Indo-European -nós — Creates verbal adjectives from roots.

-è (Catalan): Used to form an ordinal number from a cardinal...

Definitions

  1. Used to form an ordinal number from a cardinal...

Ancestry of “-è”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latin-ēnusOf or pertaining to; -ine
2Proto-Indo-European-nósCreates verbal adjectives from roots

Words derived from “-è”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -nós →Every word from Latin -ēnus →