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Where does “-tito” come from?

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

-tito (Latin): Forms frequentative verbs from existing verbs

Definitions

  1. Forms frequentative verbs from existing verbs

Ancestry of “-tito”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latin-itoForms frequentative verbs from existing verbs or...
2Latin-tō—
3Latin-tusForms the past participle of verbs; Forms...
4Proto-Italic-tus—
5Proto-Indo-European-tusDerives action nouns from verb roots

Words derived from “-tito”

  • hesitation
  • hesitate
  • hesitating
  • hesitant
  • unhesitatingly
  • hesitatingly
  • hesitantly
  • hesitancy
  • unhesitating
  • unhesitant
  • unhesitantly
  • hesitater
  • unhesitatingness
  • hesitational
  • hesitatory
  • haesito
  • haesitatus
  • haesitare
  • actito
  • haesitaturus
  • haesitandus
  • haesitationem
  • actitans
  • actitaturus
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tus →