Where does “effeminatus” come from?
effeminatus (Latin) comes from Latin effēminō, from Latin fēmina, from Proto-Italic fēmanā, from Proto-Indo-European dʰeh₁-m̥n-eh₂, from Proto-Indo-European dʰeh₁(y)- — to suckle, nurse.
Ancestry of “effeminatus”, step by step