Where does “deviant” come from?

deviant (Czech) comes from Latin devians, from Latin dēviō, from Latin -ō, from Proto-Indo-European -ō — Derives nouns from roots.

deviant (Czech): deviant

Definitions

  1. deviant

Ancestry of “deviant”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latindeviansstraying, deviating, detouring
2Latindēviōto stray, deviate or detour
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

Words derived from “deviant”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -ō →Every word from Latin -ō →Every word from Latin dēviō →