Where does “riotous” come from?

Riotous comes from Middle English riotous, from Old French riotous, from Latin riotosus, continuing a suffix pattern from Old Latin -osos through Proto-Italic -owonssos to Latin -o-wont-to-s.

riotous (English): having the characteristics of a riot; causing,...

Definitions

  1. having the characteristics of a riot; causing,...

Ancestry of “riotous”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1English-ousUsed to form adjectives from nouns, to denote...
2Middle English-ous—
3Old French-us-ous, used for forming adjectives
4Latin-ōsusose, -ous, -ful (full of or overly prone to)
5Old Latin-ōssus—

Words derived from “riotous”

Every word from Old Latin -ōssus →Every word from Latin -ōsus →Every word from English -ous →