Where does “apro” come from?

apro (Esperanto) comes from Latin aper, from Latin -āria, from Latin -ārius, from Proto-Italic *-āzios — Forms relational adjectives to nouns (and rarely numerals).

apro (Esperanto): wild boar

Definitions

  1. wild boar

Ancestry of “apro”, step by step

apro traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Latin aper

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinapera wild boar; a standard of the Roman legions
2Latin-āriaused to form feminine counterparts of masculine agent nouns in
3Latin-āriuser
4Proto-Italic*-āziosForms relational adjectives to nouns (and rarely numerals)

via Latin asper

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinasperrough, uneven, coarse; unrefined, rude; sharp,...
2Proto-Indo-Europeanh₂esp-to cut

Words derived from “apro”

Every word from Proto-Italic *-āzios →Every word from Latin -ārius →Every word from Latin -āria →