Where does “virgenro” come from?
virgenro (Esperanto) comes from Esperanto genro, from French genré, from Old French gendre, from Latin genus, from Proto-Italic genos, from Proto-Indo-European ǵénh₁os, from Proto-Indo-European ǵenh₁- — to produce, to beget, to give birth.
virgenro (Esperanto): masculine
Definitions
- masculine
Ancestry of “virgenro”, step by step
virgenro traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Esperanto genro
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Esperanto | genro | gender; genus |
| 2 | French | genré | genric |
| 3 | Old French | gendre | son-in-law |
| 4 | Latin | genus | birth, origin, lineage, descent; kind, type,... |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | genos | lineage, origin |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵénh₁os | race, lineage |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵenh₁- | to produce, to beget, to give birth |
via Esperanto vira
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Esperanto | vira | male |
| 2 | Esperanto | -a | Related to, in the manner of, of; Belonging to,... |
| 3 | Italian | -a | Used, with a stem, to form the third-person... |
| 4 | Latin | -a | suffixed to the roots of verbs, forms agent... |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | -ā | Forms masculine agent nouns from prefixed or compounded bases |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -éh₂ | — |