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Where does “puérilité” come from?

puérilité (Middle French) comes from Latin puerīlitās, from Latin puerīlis, from Latin -ilis, from Proto-Italic -elis, from Proto-Indo-European -elis, from Proto-Indo-European -lós — Forms agent nouns from verbal roots.

Ancestry of “puérilité”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinpuerīlitās—
2Latinpuerīlis—
3Latin-ilis-ile
4Proto-Italic-elis—
5Proto-Indo-European-elis—
6Proto-Indo-European-lósForms agent nouns from verbal roots
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