Where does “Ptolemeu” come from?

Ptolemeu (Catalan) comes from Latin Ptolemaeus, from Latin -us, from Old Latin -os, from Proto-Italic -os, from Proto-Indo-European -ós — Creates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting...

Ptolemeu (Catalan): Ptolemy

Definitions

  1. Ptolemy

Ancestry of “Ptolemeu”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1LatinPtolemaeusPtolemy
2Latin-ussuffix forming adjectives from nouns, verbs,...
3Old Latin-osaccusative masculine plural of -us
4Proto-Italic-os
5Proto-Indo-European-ósCreates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting...
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -ósEvery word from Latin -usEvery word from Latin Ptolemaeus