Where does “nimi” come from?

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

nimi (Catalan): minute, minor, negligible

Definitions

  1. minute, minor, negligible

Ancestry of “nimi”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinnimiusexcessive, too great, too much
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 -ós →Every word from Latin -us →Every word from Latin nimius →