Where does “urticaria” come from?

Urticaria comes from New Latin urticaria, from Latin -aria, from Latin -arius, from Latin -alis, from Proto-Italic ouzō, from Proto-Indo-European h₁ews-.

urticaria (English): Itchy, swollen, red areas of the skin which can...

Definitions

  1. Itchy, swollen, red areas of the skin which can...

Ancestry of “urticaria”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1New Latinurtīcāria
2Latinurtīcastinging nettle
3Latin-āriaused to form feminine counterparts of masculine agent nouns in
4Latin-āriuser
5Proto-Italic*-āziosForms relational adjectives to nouns (and rarely numerals)

Words derived from “urticaria

Every word from Proto-Italic *-āziosEvery word from Latin -āriusEvery word from Latin -āria
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