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,...
2Latinedōto eat
3Latin-ilis-ile
4Proto-Italic-elis
5Proto-Indo-European-elis
6Proto-Indo-European-lósForms agent nouns from verbal roots

Words derived from “edace

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -lósEvery word from Latin -ilisEvery word from Latin edō
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