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Where does “-legus” come from?

-legus (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...

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Definitions

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Ancestry of “-legus”, 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 “-legus”

  • sacrilege
  • sortilege
  • sacrilegist
  • sortileger
  • sortilege
  • sortilegium
  • sortilegus
  • murilegus
  • -lega
  • florilegus
  • sacrilege
  • sacrilegium
  • sacrilegus
  • sortilegum
  • sacrilegio
  • sacrílegamente
  • sacrílego
  • sacrilegamente
  • sortilego
  • sacrilegio
  • sacrilego
  • sortilège
  • sacrilégement
  • sacrilège
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