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Where does “edace” come from?

edace (Italian) comes from Latin edax, from Latin edō, from Latin -ilis, from Proto-Italic -elis, from Proto-Indo-European -elis, from Proto-Indo-European -lós — Forms agent nouns from verbal roots.

edace (Italian): edacious

Definitions

  1. edacious

Ancestry of “edace”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinedaxgreedy, gluttonous, rapacious, voracious,...
2Latinedō—
3Latin-ilis-ile
4Proto-Italic-elis—
5Proto-Indo-European-elis—
6Proto-Indo-European-lósForms agent nouns from verbal roots

Words derived from “edace”

  • edacità
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