Where does “aqueous” come from?

Aqueous comes from Latin -ōsus, a suffix derived from Proto-Italic -owonssos, which traces back to Proto-Indo-European h₂ekʷeh₂.

aqueous (English): Consisting mostly of water

Definitions

  1. Consisting mostly of water

Ancestry of “aqueous”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1English-ousUsed to form adjectives from nouns, to denote...
2Middle English-ous—
3Old French-us-ous, used for forming adjectives
4Latin-ōsusose, -ous, -ful (full of or overly prone to)
5Old Latin-ōssus—

Words derived from “aqueous”

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