Where does “colo” come from?
colo (Old Portuguese) comes from Latin collum, from Latin -is, from Latin -a, from Proto-Italic -ā, from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂.
Ancestry of “colo”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Latin | collum | neck, throat; upper stem of a plant; servitude |
| 2 | Latin | -is | suffixed to the root of nouns in composition,... |
| 3 | Latin | -a | suffixed to the roots of verbs, forms agent... |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | -ā | — |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | -éh₂ | — |
Words derived from “colo”