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Where does “vulturo” come from?

vulturo (Esperanto) comes from English vulture, from Anglo-Norman vultur, from Old French voutoir, from Latin Vultur.

vulturo (Esperanto): vulture

Definitions

  1. vulture

Ancestry of “vulturo”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishvultureAny of several carrion-eating birds of the...
2Anglo-NormanvulturAlternative form of voutoir
3Old Frenchvoutoirvulture
4LatinVultur—
Every word from Latin Vultur →