Where does “cauliflorous” come from?

cauliflorous (English) comes from English -florous, from Latin -flōrus, from Latin -us, from Old Latin -os, from Proto-Italic -os, from Proto-Indo-European -ós — Creates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting...

cauliflorous (English): Having flowers on the stem

Definitions

  1. Having flowers on the stem

Ancestry of “cauliflorous”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1English-florousForms nouns related to flowers
2Latin-flōrusflowered, -florous
3Latin-ussuffix forming adjectives from nouns, verbs,...
4Old Latin-osaccusative masculine plural of -us
5Proto-Italic-os—
6Proto-Indo-European-ósCreates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting...
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -ós →Every word from Latin -us →Every word from Latin -flōrus →