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Where does “terurega” come from?

terurega (Esperanto) comes from Esperanto terura, from Esperanto teruro, from French terreur, from Middle French terreur, from Old French terreur, from Latin terror, from Latin faciō, from Latin -torium.

terurega (Esperanto): terrible

Definitions

  1. terrible

Ancestry of “terurega”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Esperantoteruraterrible
2Esperantoteruro—
3Frenchterreurterror; terrorcore
4Middle Frenchterreurterror
5Old Frenchterreurterror
6Latinterrora dread, terror, great fear, alarm, panic; an...
7Latinfaciō—
8Latin-toriumnominative neuter singular of -tōrius; accusative...
9Latin-tōrius—
10Latin-tor-er
11Proto-Italic-tōr—
12Proto-Indo-European-tōrDerives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone...
13Proto-Indo-European-tor-s—
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