Where does “ventriloquus” come from?

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

ventriloquus (Latin): a ventriloquist

Definitions

  1. a ventriloquist

Ancestry of “ventriloquus”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latin-loquus—
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 “ventriloquus”

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