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Where does “mordeo” come from?

mordeo (Latin) comes from Proto-Italic mordeō, from Proto-Indo-European (s)merd- — to bite, to sting.

Ancestry of “mordeo”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Italicmordeōto bite
2Proto-Indo-European(s)merd-to bite, to sting
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