Where does “-fidus” come from?

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

-fidus (Latin): fid, forming adjectives meaning "cleft" or "split"

Definitions

  1. fid, forming adjectives meaning "cleft" or "split"

Ancestry of “-fidus”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latin-ussuffix forming adjectives from nouns, verbs,...
2Old Latin-osaccusative masculine plural of -us
3Proto-Italic-os—
4Proto-Indo-European-ósCreates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting...

Words derived from “-fidus”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -ós →Every word from Latin -us →Every word from Old Latin -os →
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