Where does “docilidade” come from?

docilidade (Galician) comes from Latin docilitas, from Latin docilis, from Latin -ilis, from Proto-Italic -elis, from Proto-Indo-European -elis, from Proto-Indo-European -lós — Forms agent nouns from verbal roots.

docilidade (Galician): docility the quality of being docile

Definitions

  1. docility the quality of being docile

Ancestry of “docilidade”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latindocilitasdocility; gentleness
2Latindocilisdocile, teachable; manageable, tractable;...
3Latin-ilis-ile
4Proto-Italic-elis—
5Proto-Indo-European-elis—
6Proto-Indo-European-lósForms agent nouns from verbal roots
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -lós →Every word from Latin -ilis →Every word from Latin docilis →