Where does “osteospermum” come from?

osteospermum (English) comes from Translingual Osteospermum, from Latin -um, from Proto-Italic *-om, from Proto-Indo-European *-oHom.

osteospermum (English): Any of the genus Osteospermum of subshrubs

Definitions

  1. Any of the genus Osteospermum of subshrubs

Ancestry of “osteospermum”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1TranslingualOsteospermumgenus, also called boneseeds.}}
2Latin-umnominative neuter singular of -us; accusative...
3Proto-Italic*-om—
4Proto-Indo-European*-oHom—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European *-oHom →Every word from Latin -um →Every word from Translingual Osteospermum →