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Where does “-voro” come from?

-voro (Italian) comes from Latin -vorus, from Latin -us, from Old Latin -os, from Proto-Italic -os, from Proto-Indo-European -ós — Creates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting...

-voro (Italian): Used to form masculine nouns analogous to -vore;...

Definitions

  1. Used to form masculine nouns analogous to -vore;...

Ancestry of “-voro”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latin-vorus-eating, -devouring
2Latin-ussuffix forming adjectives from nouns, verbs,...
3Old Latin-osaccusative masculine plural of -us
4Proto-Italic-os—
5Proto-Indo-European-ósCreates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting...

Words derived from “-voro”

  • erbivoro
  • carnivoro
  • fungivoro
  • energivoro
  • carnivora
  • apivoro
  • comburivoro
  • crudivoro
  • frugivoro
  • detritivoro
  • fruttivoro
  • fumivoro
  • piscivore
  • idrovoro
  • insettivoro
  • granivoro
  • larvivoro
  • limivoro
  • ossivoro
  • piscivoro
  • sanguivoro
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