Where does “uncus” come from?

uncus (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...

uncus (Latin): hook, barb; a hook used to drag criminals by the...

Definitions

  1. hook, barb; a hook used to drag criminals by the...

Ancestry of “uncus”, 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 “uncus”

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