Where does “frugilegus” come from?

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

frugilegus (Latin): fruit-gathering (used as an epithet of the ant)

Definitions

  1. fruit-gathering (used as an epithet of the ant)

Ancestry of “frugilegus”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latin-legusForms adjectives related to the concept of...
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...
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -ós →Every word from Latin -us →Every word from Latin -legus →