Where does “perpetuel” come from?
perpetuel (Old French) comes from Latin perpetualis, from Latin perpetuus, from Latin -uus, from Proto-Italic *-wos, from Proto-Indo-European -wós — Creates adjectives from verb stems.
Ancestry of “perpetuel”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | perpetualis | that holds everywhere, universal, general |
| 2 | Latin | perpetuus | perpetual, continuous, uninterrupted, constant,... |
| 3 | Latin | -uus | forms adjectives on verbal stems |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | *-wos | — |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | -wós | Creates adjectives from verb stems |