Where does “aquilegus” come from?

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

aquilegus (Latin): water-collecting, water-drawing

Definitions

  1. water-collecting, water-drawing

Ancestry of “aquilegus”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latin-legusForms adjectives related to the concept of...
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 -ósEvery word from Latin -usEvery word from Latin -legus
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