Where does “omnivorus” come from?

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

omnivorus (Latin): eating all things, all-devouring, omnivorous

Definitions

  1. eating all things, all-devouring, omnivorous

Ancestry of “omnivorus”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latin-vorus-eating, -devouring
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...

Words derived from “omnivorus”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -ós →Every word from Latin -us →Every word from Latin -vorus →