Where does “paléocortex” come from?

paléocortex (French) comes from French paléo-, from Ancient Greek παλαιός, from Ancient Greek -ός, from Proto-Hellenic *-os, from Proto-Indo-European -ós — Creates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting...

paléocortex (French): paleocortex

Definitions

  1. paleocortex

Ancestry of “paléocortex”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchpaléo-paleo-
2Ancient Greekπαλαιόςold, aged; ancient, of times past; time-honoured,...
3Ancient Greek-όςForms agentive or patientive adjectives and nouns from the o-grade of a verbal root
4Proto-Hellenic*-os
5Proto-Indo-European-ósCreates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting...
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -ósEvery word from Ancient Greek -όςEvery word from Ancient Greek παλαιός