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Where does “forame” come from?

forame (Italian) comes from Latin forāmen, from Latin -men, from Proto-Italic *-mn̥.

forame (Italian): foramen

Definitions

  1. foramen

Ancestry of “forame”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinforāmen—
2Latin-menforms neuter nouns of the third declension
3Proto-Italic*-mn̥—
Every word from Proto-Italic *-mn̥ →