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Where does “peniculus” come from?

peniculus (Latin) comes from Latin -culus, from Proto-Italic *-kelos.

Ancestry of “peniculus”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latin-culusAlternative form of -ulus; added to a noun to...
2Proto-Italic*-kelos—
Every word from Proto-Italic *-kelos →