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Where does “eobiont” come from?

eobiont (English) comes from English eo-, from English anthropo-, from Ancient Greek Ἄνθρωπος, from Latin -us, from Old Latin -os, from Proto-Italic -os, from Proto-Indo-European -ós — Creates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting...

eobiont (English): a hypothetical primordial life-form or chemical...

Definitions

  1. a hypothetical primordial life-form or chemical...

Ancestry of “eobiont”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Englisheo-earliest
2Englishanthropo-Forming words related to men or people
3Ancient GreekἌνθρωπος—
4Latin-ussuffix forming adjectives from nouns, verbs,...
5Old Latin-osaccusative masculine plural of -us
6Proto-Italic-os—
7Proto-Indo-European-ósCreates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting...
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