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Where does “fedifrago” come from?

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

fedifrago (Italian): unfaithful; faithless; unfaithful person

Definitions

  1. unfaithful; faithless; unfaithful person

Ancestry of “fedifrago”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinfoedifragusleague-breaking; perfidious
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...
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