Where does “causídico” come from?

causídico (Portuguese) comes from Latin causidicus, from Latin -dicus, from Latin -us, from Old Latin -os, from Proto-Italic -os, from Proto-Indo-European -ós — Creates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting...

causídico (Portuguese): attorney; lawyer one who advises or represents others in legal matters

Definitions

  1. attorney; lawyer one who advises or represents others in legal matters

Ancestry of “causídico”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latincausidicuslawyer, attorney
2Latin-dicussaying
3Latin-ussuffix forming adjectives from nouns, verbs,...
4Old Latin-osaccusative masculine plural of -us
5Proto-Italic-os—
6Proto-Indo-European-ósCreates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting...
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -ós →Every word from Latin -us →Every word from Latin -dicus →