Where does “morritort” come from?

morritort (Catalan) comes from Catalan tort, from Old Catalan tort, from Latin tortus, from Latin -tus, from Proto-Italic -tus, from Proto-Indo-European -tus — Derives action nouns from verb roots.

morritort (Catalan): garden cress

Definitions

  1. garden cress

Ancestry of “morritort”, step by step

morritort traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Catalan tort

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Catalantortbent, twisted, crooked, askew, wonky
2Old Catalantort—
3Latintortustwisted, crooked; spun, whirled; bent, distorted
4Latin-tusForms the past participle of verbs; Forms...
5Proto-Italic-tus—
6Proto-Indo-European-tusDerives action nouns from verb roots

via Catalan morro

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Catalanmorrosnout; nose
2Catalan-óDiminutive suffix
3Latin-ōsuffixed to nouns or adjectives. Originally a-stem nouns. Later extended to nouns with other stems. Forms regular first-conjugation verbs
4Proto-Indo-European-ōDerives nouns from roots
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tus →Every word from Latin -tus →Every word from Latin tortus →