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Where does “subsurfaca” come from?

subsurfaca (Esperanto) comes from Esperanto surfaco, from French surface, from Latin superficiēs, from Latin faciēs, from Latin faciō, from Latin -torium, from Latin -tōrius, from Latin -tor.

subsurfaca (Esperanto): subsurface, below the surface

Definitions

  1. subsurface, below the surface

Ancestry of “subsurfaca”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Esperantosurfacosurface
2Frenchsurfacesurface
3Latinsuperficiēs—
4Latinfaciēs—
5Latinfaciō—
6Latin-toriumnominative neuter singular of -tōrius; accusative...
7Latin-tōrius—
8Latin-tor-er
9Proto-Italic-tōr—
10Proto-Indo-European-tōrDerives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone...
11Proto-Indo-European-tor-s—
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