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Where does “brevipalpus” come from?

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

brevipalpus (Latin): short-handed

Definitions

  1. short-handed

Ancestry of “brevipalpus”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinpalpuspalm of the hand; feeler
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...
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