Where does “flavicostus” come from?

flavicostus (Latin) comes from Latin flāvus, 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...

flavicostus (Latin): having yellow ribs

Definitions

  1. having yellow ribs

Ancestry of “flavicostus”, step by step

flavicostus traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Latin flāvus

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinflāvuslight(-haired), blond
2Latinpalpuspalm of the hand; feeler
3Latin-ussuffix forming adjectives from nouns, verbs,...
4Old Latin-osaccusative masculine plural of -us
5Proto-Italic-os—
6Proto-Indo-European-ósCreates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting...

via Latin costa

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latincostaa rib; a side, a wall
2Proto-Indo-Europeankost-—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -ós →Every word from Latin -us →Every word from Latin palpus →