Where does “trophus” come from?

trophus (English) comes from Latin trophus, from Ancient Greek τροφός, from Ancient Greek -ός, from Proto-Hellenic *-os, from Proto-Indo-European -ós — Creates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting...

trophus (English): Mouthpart of certain types of organism such as an...

Definitions

  1. Mouthpart of certain types of organism such as an...

Ancestry of “trophus”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latintrophus—
2Ancient Greekτροφόςnurse; wet nurse
3Ancient Greek-όςForms agentive or patientive adjectives and nouns from the o-grade of a verbal root
4Proto-Hellenic*-os—
5Proto-Indo-European-ósCreates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting...

Words derived from “trophus”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -ós →Every word from Ancient Greek -ός →Every word from Ancient Greek τροφός →