Where does “forame” come from?
forame (Italian) comes from Latin forāmen, from Latin -men, from Proto-Italic *-mn̥.
forame (Italian): foramen
Ancestry of “forame”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Latin | forāmen | — |
| 2 | Latin | -men | forms neuter nouns of the third declension |
| 3 | Proto-Italic | *-mn̥ | — |