Where does “-udo” come from?

-udo (Portuguese) comes from Latin -utus, from Latin -tus, from Proto-Italic -tus, from Proto-Indo-European -tus — Derives action nouns from verb roots.

-udo (Portuguese): A suffix appended to nouns of parts of the body...

Definitions

  1. A suffix appended to nouns of parts of the body...

Ancestry of “-udo”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latin-utus—
2Latin-tusForms the past participle of verbs; Forms...
3Proto-Italic-tus—
4Proto-Indo-European-tusDerives action nouns from verb roots

Words derived from “-udo”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tus →