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Where does “απόλυτος” come from?

απόλυτος (Greek) comes from Ancient Greek ἀπόλυτος, from Ancient Greek -τός, from Proto-Indo-European -tós — Creates verbal adjectives from verb stems.

απόλυτος (Greek): absolute, complete, total; absolute; cardinal

Definitions

  1. absolute, complete, total; absolute; cardinal

Ancestry of “απόλυτος”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Ancient Greekἀπόλυτος—
2Ancient Greek-τόςcreates verbal adjectives of possibility, either...
3Proto-Indo-European-tósCreates verbal adjectives from verb stems
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