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Where does “scius” come from?

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

scius (Latin): cognizant, knowing

Definitions

  1. cognizant, knowing

Ancestry of “scius”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latin-ussuffix forming adjectives from nouns, verbs,...
2Old Latin-osaccusative masculine plural of -us
3Proto-Italic-os—
4Proto-Indo-European-ósCreates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting...

Words derived from “scius”

  • nice
  • nicely
  • niche
  • nicety
  • niceness
  • scious
  • niched
  • sciolist
  • renice
  • overnice
  • Niceville
  • subniche
  • microniche
  • niceish
  • supernice
  • econiche
  • overniceness
  • unnice
  • sciolous
  • nicheless
  • multiniche
  • nichey
  • overnicely
  • nicen
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