Where does “janvāris” come from?

janvāris (Latvian) comes from Latin iānuārius, from Latin -ārius, from Proto-Italic *-āzios — Forms relational adjectives to nouns (and rarely numerals).

janvāris (Latvian): the month of January

Definitions

  1. the month of January

Ancestry of “janvāris”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latiniānuāriusof January
2Latin-āriuser
3Proto-Italic*-āziosForms relational adjectives to nouns (and rarely numerals)
Every word from Proto-Italic *-āzios →Every word from Latin -ārius →Every word from Latin iānuārius →