Where does “flocculate” come from?

flocculate (English) comes from Latin flocculus, from Latin -ulus, from Proto-Italic -olos, from Proto-Italic -elos, from Proto-Indo-European -e-lós, from Proto-Indo-European -lós — Forms agent nouns from verbal roots.

flocculate (English): To collect together in a loose aggregation like...

Definitions

  1. To collect together in a loose aggregation like...

Ancestry of “flocculate”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinflocculussmall flake
2Latin-ulusUsed to form a diminutive of a noun, indicating...
3Proto-Italic-olos—
4Proto-Italic-elosForms desubstantival and deadjectival diminutive nouns
5Proto-Indo-European-e-lós—
6Proto-Indo-European-lósForms agent nouns from verbal roots

Words derived from “flocculate”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -lós →Every word from Latin -ulus →Every word from Latin flocculus →