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Where does “vora” come from?

vora (Latin) comes from Latin voro, from Proto-Indo-European gʷerh₃- — to swallow, devour, eat.

vora (Latin): second-person singular present active imperative...

Definitions

  1. second-person singular present active imperative...

Ancestry of “vora”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1LatinvoroI devour; I eat greedily; I swallow up; I...
2Proto-Indo-Europeangʷerh₃-to swallow, devour, eat
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