Where does “boato” come from?

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

boato (Portuguese): rumor

Definitions

  1. rumor

Ancestry of “boato”, step by step

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