Where does “aspergillosis” come from?
Aspergillosis comes from English -osis, derived from Ancient Greek -ωσις, from Latin -us, from Old Latin -os, from Proto-Italic -os, from Proto-Indo-European -ós, a suffix forming abstract nouns of action or state.
aspergillosis (English): Any of various infections by fungi of the genus...
Definitions
- Any of various infections by fungi of the genus...
Ancestry of “aspergillosis”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | -osis | functional disease or condition such as... |
| 2 | New Latin | -osis | dative masculine plural of -ōsus; dative feminine... |