Where does “calcula” come from?
calcula (Latin) comes from Latin calculo, from Latin calculus, from Latin -ulus, from Proto-Italic -olos, from Proto-Italic -elos, from Proto-Indo-European -e-lós, from Proto-Indo-European -lós — Forms agent nouns from verbal roots.
calcula (Latin): second-person singular present active imperative...
Definitions
- second-person singular present active imperative...
Ancestry of “calcula”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | calculo | I calculate, compute, reckon; I consider as,... |
| 2 | Latin | calculus | diminutive of calx; pebble, stone; reckoning,... |
| 3 | Latin | -ulus | Used to form a diminutive of a noun, indicating... |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | -olos | — |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | -elos | Forms desubstantival and deadjectival diminutive nouns |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -e-lós | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -lós | Forms agent nouns from verbal roots |