Where does “caroçama” come from?

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

caroçama (Portuguese): an excessive amount of hard fruit seeds, or of...

Definitions

  1. an excessive amount of hard fruit seeds, or of...

Ancestry of “caroçama”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Portuguese-amaforms nouns indicating a disorderly group or...
2Portuguese-ameforms nouns indicating a group or collection of...
3Latin-amen—
4Latin-menforms neuter nouns of the third declension
5Proto-Italic*-mn̥—
Every word from Proto-Italic *-mn̥ →Every word from Latin -men →Every word from Portuguese -ama →