Where does “ceva” come from?

ceva (Portuguese) comes from Portuguese cevar, from Latin cibō, from Latin -ō, from Proto-Indo-European -ō — Derives nouns from roots.

ceva (Portuguese): food used to fatten animals; bait used to draw...

Definitions

  1. food used to fatten animals; bait used to draw...

Ancestry of “ceva”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Portuguesecevarto fatten; to feed
2Latincibōto give fodder to animals, to fatten, fodder
3Latin-ōsuffixed to nouns or adjectives. Originally a-stem nouns. Later extended to nouns with other stems. Forms regular first-conjugation verbs
4Proto-Indo-European-ōDerives nouns from roots
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -ō →Every word from Latin -ō →Every word from Latin cibō →