Where does “floculer” come from?

floculer (French) comes from Latin flocculus, from Latin -ulus, from Proto-Italic -olos, from Proto-Italic -elos, from Proto-Indo-European -e-lós, from Proto-Indo-European -lós — Forms agent nouns from verbal roots.

floculer (French): to flocculate

Definitions

to flocculate

Ancestry of “floculer”, step by step

Step	Language	Word	Meaning
1	Latin	flocculus	small flake
2	Latin	-ulus	Used to form a diminutive of a noun, indicating...
3	Proto-Italic	-olos	—
4	Proto-Italic	-elos	Forms desubstantival and deadjectival diminutive nouns
5	Proto-Indo-European	-e-lós	—
6	Proto-Indo-European	-lós	Forms agent nouns from verbal roots

Words derived from “floculer”

floculation
floculație

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -lós →Every word from Latin -ulus →Every word from Latin flocculus →