Where does “foramen” come from?

Foramen comes from Latin foramen, formed from Latin forum meaning "opening" or "passage" combined with the Latin suffix -men, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European dʰwer-.

foramen (English): an opening, an orifice; a short passage

Definitions

  1. an opening, an orifice; a short passage

Ancestry of “foramen”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinforāmenan opening or aperture produced by boring; a hole
2Latin-menforms neuter nouns of the third declension
3Proto-Italic*-mn̥—

Words derived from “foramen”

Every word from Proto-Italic *-mn̥ →Every word from Latin -men →Every word from Latin forāmen →