Where does “alterniflorus” come from?

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

alterniflorus (Latin): having flowers that alternate on each side of a stem

Definitions

  1. having flowers that alternate on each side of a stem

Ancestry of “alterniflorus”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latin-flōrusflowered, -florous
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...
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -ós →Every word from Latin -us →Every word from Latin -flōrus →