Where does “-vorous” come from?

-vorous (English) comes 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...

-vorous (English): forming adjectives with the sense of ‘habitually...

Definitions

  1. forming adjectives with the sense of ‘habitually...

Ancestry of “-vorous”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latin-vorus-eating, -devouring
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...

Words derived from “-vorous”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -ós →