Where does “sufragan” come from?

sufragan (Polish) comes from French suffragant, from Old French suffragam, from Latin suffragium, from Latin -ium, from Latin -ius, from Proto-Italic -jōs, from Proto-Indo-European -yós — Creates adjectives from noun or verb stems.

sufragan (Polish): suffragan bishop

Definitions

  1. suffragan bishop

Ancestry of “sufragan”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchsuffragantsuffragant
2Old Frenchsuffragam
3Latinsuffragiumvoting tablet; vote; judgement
4Latin-iumSuffix used to form abstract nouns, sometimes...
5Latin-iusforming adjectives from nouns; nominative neuter...
6Proto-Italic-jōsForms comparative adjectives
7Proto-Indo-European-yósCreates adjectives from noun or verb stems
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -yósEvery word from Latin -iumEvery word from Latin -ius
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