Where does “parietal” come from?

Parietal comes from Latin parietalis, formed from Latin pariēs (wall) plus the suffix -alis, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European -li-.

parietal (English): Of or relating to the wall of a body part, organ...

Definitions

  1. Of or relating to the wall of a body part, organ...

Ancestry of “parietal”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinparietālisparietal
2Latin-ālis
3Proto-Italic-ālisforms relational adjectives

Words derived from “parietal

Every word from Proto-Italic -ālis
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