Where does “vaporate” come from?

vaporate (Latin) comes from Latin vaporo, from Latin -ō, from Proto-Indo-European -ō — Derives nouns from roots.

vaporate (Latin): second-person plural present active imperative of...

Definitions

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of...

Ancestry of “vaporate”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1LatinvaporoI steam, reek; I smoke, fumigate
2Latin-ōsuffixed to nouns or adjectives. Originally a-stem nouns. Later extended to nouns with other stems. Forms regular first-conjugation verbs
3Proto-Indo-European-ōDerives nouns from roots
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -ō →Every word from Latin -ō →Every word from Latin vaporo →