Where does “nimium” come from?

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

nimium (Latin): too, too much, excessively

Definitions

  1. too, too much, excessively

Ancestry of “nimium”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinnimiusexcessive, too great, too much
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 nimius →