Where does “mycelium” come from?

Mycelium comes from Latin -ium, derived from Latin -um, which developed from Latin -us, continuing Old Latin -os, from Proto-Italic -os, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European -ós, a masculine nominative singular suffix.

mycelium (English): The vegetative part of any fungus, consisting of...

Definitions

  1. The vegetative part of any fungus, consisting of...

Ancestry of “mycelium”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1English-ium1997, Bryan Pfaffenberger, "Official Microsoft...
2Latin-umnominative neuter singular of -us; accusative...
3Proto-Italic*-om—
4Proto-Indo-European*-oHom—

Words derived from “mycelium”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European *-oHom →Every word from English -ium →Every word from Latin -um →
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