Where does “flāvus” come from?

flāvus (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...

flāvus (Latin): light(-haired), blond

Definitions

  1. light(-haired), blond

Ancestry of “flāvus”, 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...

Words derived from “flāvus”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -ós →Every word from Latin -us →Every word from Latin palpus →