Where does “Dioscoreaceae” come from?

Dioscoreaceae (English) comes from Translingual Dioscorea, from Translingual -a, from Latin -a, from Proto-Italic -ā, from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂.

Ancestry of “Dioscoreaceae”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1TranslingualDioscoreagenus
2Translingual-aUsed to create genus names from proper nouns;...
3Latin-asuffixed to the roots of verbs, forms agent...
4Proto-Italic-āForms masculine agent nouns from prefixed or compounded bases
5Proto-Indo-European-éh₂—

Words derived from “Dioscoreaceae”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂ →Every word from Latin -a →Every word from Translingual -a →