Where does “-ame” come from?

-ame (Portuguese) comes from Latin -amen, from Latin -men, from Proto-Italic *-mn̥.

-ame (Portuguese): forms nouns indicating a group or collection of...

Definitions

  1. forms nouns indicating a group or collection of...

Ancestry of “-ame”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latin-amen—
2Latin-menforms neuter nouns of the third declension
3Proto-Italic*-mn̥—

Words derived from “-ame”

Every word from Proto-Italic *-mn̥ →Every word from Latin -men →Every word from Latin -amen →