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Where does “flavid” come from?

flavid (English) comes from Latin flavidus, from Latin flaveo, from Latin flāvus, from Latin palpus, from Latin -us, from Old Latin -os, from Proto-Italic -os, from Proto-Indo-European -ós — Creates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting...

flavid (English): yellow

Definitions

  1. yellow

Ancestry of “flavid”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinflavidusyellowish
2LatinflaveoI am golden yellow or light yellow
3Latinflāvus—
4Latinpalpuspalm of the hand; feeler
5Latin-ussuffix forming adjectives from nouns, verbs,...
6Old Latin-osaccusative masculine plural of -us
7Proto-Italic-os—
8Proto-Indo-European-ósCreates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting...
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