Where does “sassafras” come from?
Sassafras comes from Spanish sasafrás, from Latin saxifragus, from Latin frangere meaning "to break," ultimately from Proto-Indo-European bʰreg-.
sassafras (English): A tree of species Sassafras albidum of the...
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- A tree of species Sassafras albidum of the...
Ancestry of “sassafras”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Spanish | sasafrás | sassafras |
| 2 | Latin | saxifragus | stone-crushing, stone-breaking |
| 3 | Latin | -us | suffix forming adjectives from nouns, verbs,... |
| 4 | Old Latin | -os | accusative masculine plural of -us |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | -os | — |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -ós | Creates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting... |