Where does “bitūmen” come from?

bitūmen (Latin) comes from Latin -men, from Proto-Italic *-mn̥.

bitūmen (Latin): mineral pitch, bitumen

Definitions

  1. mineral pitch, bitumen

Ancestry of “bitūmen”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latin-menforms neuter nouns of the third declension
2Proto-Italic*-mn̥—

Words derived from “bitūmen”

Every word from Proto-Italic *-mn̥ →Every word from Latin -men →