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Where does “missatger” come from?

missatger (Catalan) comes from Catalan missatge, from Latin missāticum, from Latin missus, from Latin -tus, from Proto-Italic -tus, from Proto-Indo-European -tus — Derives action nouns from verb roots.

missatger (Catalan): messenger

Definitions

  1. messenger

Ancestry of “missatger”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Catalanmissatgemessage
2Latinmissāticum—
3Latinmissussent, having been sent, caused to go, having been...
4Latin-tusForms the past participle of verbs; Forms...
5Proto-Italic-tus—
6Proto-Indo-European-tusDerives action nouns from verb roots
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tus →