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Where does “mundus” come from?

mundus (Latin) comes from Proto-Indo-European mewH- — to wash, wet; to make wet, wash; wet.

mundus (Latin): clean, pure; neat; nice, fine, elegant,...

Definitions

  1. clean, pure; neat; nice, fine, elegant,...

Ancestry of “mundus”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Indo-EuropeanmewH-to wash, wet; to make wet, wash; wet

Words derived from “mundus”

  • map
  • mapping
  • mundane
  • bitmap
  • mapper
  • mapmaking
  • mapmaker
  • remap
  • supramundane
  • mappable
  • mundanity
  • mundanely
  • supermundane
  • multimap
  • extramundane
  • unmappable
  • colormap
  • ultramundane
  • transmundane
  • treemap
  • ecomap
  • portmapper
  • mundaneness
  • maplike
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