Where does “-us” come from?

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

-us (Latin): suffix forming adjectives from nouns, verbs,...

Definitions

  1. suffix forming adjectives from nouns, verbs,...

Ancestry of “-us”, step by step

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

Words derived from “-us

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -ós