Where does “ovívor” come from?

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

ovívor (Catalan): ovivorous, egg-eating

Definitions

  1. ovivorous, egg-eating

Ancestry of “ovívor”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1English-vor
2Latin-vorus-eating, -devouring
3Latin-ussuffix forming adjectives from nouns, verbs,...
4Old Latin-osaccusative masculine plural of -us
5Proto-Italic-os
6Proto-Indo-European-ósCreates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting...
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -ósEvery word from Latin -usEvery word from Latin -vorus
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