Where does “ventricular” come from?

Ventricular comes from New Latin ventricularis, from Latin ventriculus meaning small belly, from Latin venter meaning belly, from Proto-Indo-European wend-tri.

ventricular (English): Of or relating to a ventricle or ventriculus

Definitions

  1. Of or relating to a ventricle or ventriculus

Ancestry of “ventricular”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1New Latinventricularisventricular
2Latinventriculusbelly; stomach; ventricle
3Latin-culusAlternative form of -ulus; added to a noun to...
4Proto-Italic*-kelosDiminutive suffix

Words derived from “ventricular

Every word from Proto-Italic *-kelos