Where does “aduncus” come from?

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

aduncus (Latin): hooked, bent, curved

Definitions

  1. hooked, bent, curved

Ancestry of “aduncus”, step by step

aduncus traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Latin uncus

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinuncushook, barb; a hook used to drag criminals by the...
2Latin-ussuffix forming adjectives from nouns, verbs,...
3Old Latin-osaccusative masculine plural of -us
4Proto-Italic-os
5Proto-Indo-European-ósCreates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting...

via Latin Ad

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1LatinAdtoward, to
2Latinilliche, she, it, yonder, that, overthere; in that...
3Latinillethat; those; "; demonstrative pronoun "; that...
4LatinolleArchaic form of ille
5Proto-Italic*olnosthat

Words derived from “aduncus

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -ós
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