Where does “balteō” come from?

balteō (Latin) comes from Latin -ō, from Proto-Indo-European -ō — Derives nouns from roots.

balteō (Latin): to gird, furnish with a girdle or belt

Definitions

  1. to gird, furnish with a girdle or belt

Ancestry of “balteō”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latin-ōsuffixed to nouns or adjectives. Originally a-stem nouns. Later extended to nouns with other stems. Forms regular first-conjugation verbs
2Proto-Indo-European-ōDerives nouns from roots
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -ō →Every word from Latin -ō →