Where does “ventriloquous” come from?

ventriloquous (English) comes from Latin ventriloquus, from Latin -loquus, from Latin -us, from Old Latin -os, from Proto-Italic -os, from Proto-Indo-European -ós — Creates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting...

ventriloquous (English): Of or pertaining to a ventriloquist or...

Definitions

  1. Of or pertaining to a ventriloquist or...

Ancestry of “ventriloquous”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinventriloquusa ventriloquist
2Latin-loquus—
3Latin-ussuffix forming adjectives from nouns, verbs,...
4Old Latin-osaccusative masculine plural of -us
5Proto-Italic-os—
6Proto-Indo-European-ósCreates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting...

Words derived from “ventriloquous”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -ós →Every word from Latin -us →Every word from Latin -loquus →