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Where does “bifidatus” come from?

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

Ancestry of “bifidatus”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinbifiduscleft, cloven; forked
2Latin-fidus—
3Latin-ussuffix forming adjectives from nouns, verbs,...
4Old Latin-osaccusative masculine plural of -us
5Proto-Italic-os—
6Proto-Indo-European-ósCreates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting...

Words derived from “bifidatus”

  • bifidate
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