Where does “flavin” come from?

flavin (English) comes 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...

flavin (English): Any of a class of tricyclic heterocyclic...

Definitions

  1. Any of a class of tricyclic heterocyclic...

Ancestry of “flavin”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinflāvuslight(-haired), blond
2Latinpalpuspalm of the hand; feeler
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...

Words derived from “flavin

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -ós
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