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Where does “-ito” come from?

-ito (Latin) comes from Latin -tō, from Latin -tus, from Proto-Italic -tus, from Proto-Indo-European -tus — Derives action nouns from verb roots.

-ito (Latin): Forms frequentative verbs from existing verbs or...

Definitions

  1. Forms frequentative verbs from existing verbs or...

Ancestry of “-ito”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latin-tō—
2Latin-tusForms the past participle of verbs; Forms...
3Proto-Italic-tus—
4Proto-Indo-European-tusDerives action nouns from verb roots

Words derived from “-ito”

  • visit
  • taste
  • visited
  • hesitation
  • agitation
  • hesitate
  • visitation
  • tasting
  • hesitating
  • hesitant
  • distasteful
  • distaste
  • tasty
  • unhesitatingly
  • agitate
  • tasteless
  • tasteful
  • hesitatingly
  • hesitantly
  • hesitancy
  • tastefully
  • visitant
  • unhesitating
  • unvisited
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tus →