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Where does “glorieus” come from?

glorieus (Old French) comes from French glorieux, from Old French glorious, from Latin gloriosus, from Latin glōria, from Latin -ana, from Latin -anus, from Latin -um, from Proto-Italic *-om.

Ancestry of “glorieus”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchglorieuxglorious
2Old Frenchgloriousglorious
3Latingloriosusglorious, full of glory; famous, renowned;...
4Latinglōria—
5Latin-anainflection of -ānus: ## nominative/vocative...
6Latin-anusOf or pertaining to; -ian
7Latin-umnominative neuter singular of -us; accusative...
8Proto-Italic*-om—
9Proto-Indo-European*-oHom—

Words derived from “glorieus”

  • glorious
  • gloriously
  • inglorious
  • ingloriously
  • gloriousness
  • ingloriousness
  • unglorious
  • gloriously
  • glorious
  • glorius
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