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Where does “rambunctious” come from?

Rambunctious derives from English rumbustious, itself from English bust, burst, and the suffix -y, ultimately from Latin bustum combined with the Latin suffixes -osus, -ia, and -ivus.

rambunctious (English): Boisterous, energetic, noisy, and difficult to...

Definitions

  1. Boisterous, energetic, noisy, and difficult to...

Ancestry of “rambunctious”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishrumbustiousBoisterous and unruly
2Englishrobustiousboisterous
3EnglishrobustEvincing strength and health; strong; Violent;...
4Latinrōbustus—
5Latinrōbur—
6Latinruberred ; ruddy
7Proto-Italicruðrosred
8Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁rudʰrósred
9Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁rewdʰ-red

Words derived from “rambunctious”

  • rambunctiousness
  • rambunctiously
  • rambunction
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